[OSM-newbies] Working on Manhattan

[SteveC]

Hi

I'm on a train otherwise I'd fix it myself but I noticed the footpaths  
in Union Square were not connected to the roads?

On 7 Feb 2008, at 19:54, topo at joelertola.com wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I just discovered openstreetmap last week. I live in New York city and
> just to get my feet wet I took my GPS over to Union Square park and
> tried to map it. The gps track is very bad, (I guess because of all
> the tall buildings around the park,) but I did manage to draw the park
> and the foot paths in it. I was pleased to see my additions today:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=40.73859&lon=-73.99056&zoom=16
>
> Currently most of the streets in Manhattan are marked as residential.
> So I started taging the major streets in Manhattan as primary or
> Secondary. I am just using my general knowledge of the city to
> determine this. Is that OK?
>
> I would also like to mark the one way streets with their direction,
> but so far, I don't know how to do this.
>
> I also fixed the junction of 5th avenue and Broadway at 24th street. I
> got it to the point where it looks good but I am not sure the streets
> nodes connect properly. How can I tell if two points that overlap are
> joined together properly?
>
> I have deleted two small streets that do not exist, but I had a hard
> time figuring out how to do it. I am using the Potlatch editor. If I
> select a line segment an hit delete nothing happens. So what I have
> been doing is adding a point in the center of the segment I want to
> delete, then splitting the segment at that point, then selecting the
> end points at the split and then deleting. This seems to work but I
> doubt if it is the recommended method.
>
> I also would like to redraw the West Side highway as a double lane
> divided highway with proper connections to the city streets but, being
> such a newbie, I hesitate to make such a major change. Is it ok if I
> work on the highway in my neighborhood and leave the uptown part of
> the highway for someone else?
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
>
> -Joe Lertola
>
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