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<div>Firstly - don't listen to those who see blobs of red on OSMI and say</div>
<div>"we're all doomed" - This is a very overly pessimistic view.</div>
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<div>Instead, have a look at the Cleanmap of, for example, L.A.</div>
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<div><a href="http://cleanmap.poole.ch/?zoom=11&=&lat=34.04097&lon=-118.05841&layers=B00">http://cleanmap.poole.ch/?zoom=11&=&lat=34.04097&lon=-118.05841&layers=B00</a></div>
<p>It seems that L.A. is almost complete. However this is a slightly<br>optimistic view. Now check out the Badmap</p>
<p><a href="http://cleanmap.poole.ch/?zoom=11&=&lat=34.04097&lon=-118.05841&layers=00B">http://cleanmap.poole.ch/?zoom=11&=&lat=34.04097&lon=-118.05841&layers=00B</a></p>
<p>Now you see that while L.A. is in pretty good shape, there is, in fact,<br>quite a bit of work to do, especially in the Glendale, Burbank areas.</p>
<p>You are very lucky that in the USA you have a clean source of street<br>names (TIGER 2011) so the effort to remap a road is minimal.</p>
<p>The simple ones take about a minute, to remove the way plus any<br>intersection dirty nodes, trace in a new one from BING and the <br>TIGER centerline, paste in some source tags and highway=residential<br>tag from a copy buffer and copy in the TIGER 2011 name from the<br>
TMS overlay (remembering to un-abreviate as you go).</p>
<p>Some roads are (unfortunately) glued to landuse polygons. For these<br>you need to unglue first to make room for the road replacement. These<br>take a lot more time but, hopefully, there are not too many of these.</p>
<p>Only retreive clean tags for the way or any nodes. If a traffic signal<br>tag on a node is dirty, just blow it away. Then If you can identify<br>the signals by pavement markings on the BIng imagery, put them in.</p>
<div>I'll be doing bits of L.A but will be spending most of my time trying<br>to salvage Australia, so when you've finished the US come help me </div>
<div>down here!!</div>
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