Until now I have mostly been mapping blank areas, traveling a road, uploading a track log and drawing the road for the first time. But I'm now coming back to my own town and the map looks very rough, not at all like those German cities.
I tried now to sort out the footways of the cemetery next to me. Someone had marked the cemetery as an area (nice!), but the area's boundary was equal to the outermost footways, and it really should be a rectangle a little larger than that. I couldn't separate the common corner nodes in JOSM (is this even possible?), so I had to draw a new rectangle, tag it as cemetery and then remove the old one. The result is better, but there is still a little gap between the cemetery and a forest/park next to it. These two landuse areas should probably have a common border, but I think I will have to go there and see exactly what that area looks like. And then there are some public buildings that I should map. But how do I get the exact position of the corners of the building? I went to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapping_techniques but this page describes how to do the kind of "rough mapping" that I have been doing so far. It doesn't describe how to capture buildings, or how to separate (or when not to separate) landuse areas from cycleways. All the wiki pages on "map features" describe how to add denomination to an amenity=place_of_worship, but don't say when a church should be drawn as a dot amenity or when the outlines of the building (and surrounding park) should be mapped in detail. I think we should make wiki pages that start with real world objects instead of tags. Is there any written description for that kind of detailed mapping? Do you print out the OpenStreetMap at zoom=17 of a few city blocks and bring it with you to check all the details? Or can you run JOSM on a PDA while walking around? -- Lars Aronsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
