I typically correct the geometry and delete the 'TIGER:reviewed=no', but leave the rest because I'm superstitious...
-- SEJ -- twitter: @geomantic -- skype: sejohnson8 A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. --*Ludwig Wittgenstein* On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Russell Deffner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Kevin, I'll try to add some context. Here's a neat use for the new OSM > Analytics tool developed by HOT: > http://osm-analytics.org/#/compare/polygon:~lwbS}lpoFipQYwJawGbnQxD/2008...now/highways > > If you don't see 'blue' roads, zoom in until you do and then swipe > left/right - you can see the original TIGER roads were 'relatively > accurate', i.e. you can follow X road, turn left on Y, etc, etc. but > position and geometry is 'horrible'. And yes, there's many 'ghost roads', > etc. which maybe once was a track that the power company or someone used to > 'get back into the woods/cut-across/etc.' but are not 'roads' as the > average reasonable person would consider. Definitely take a look at > Wandcrest Park for a 'what the heck happened there' that took a drive back > in there to figure out. > > FYI, of course anyone is welcome to critique (and several have) my 'home > area'; i.e. I realized from day 1 I would probably be one of, if not the > only, OSM-er in Park County, Colorado: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/439376 - I am basically working it > from north to south, but as Wolfgang said - some of the things/ways I > mapped early on, I do very differently now and it will forever be a work in > progress. One of those things was my first focus was on cleaning up road > geometry; so no, I didn't add surface or smoothness, etc. tags. Around here > I can show you a paved road that you might not want to drive your > high-clearance vehicle down, and a dirt road that people drive their > low-clearance 'race cars' down at high speeds. Point being, it's not a > 'simple' equation to show 'quality' of roads. > > =Russ > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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