[Tagging] Cleaning up

[M∡rtin Koppenhoefer]

2010/5/5 Jonas Minnberg <sasq64 at gmail.com>:
> I am currently working on cleaning up stuff in Stockholm, and I was
> wondering if it was OK do to things like:
>
> * Remove cycleways parallel to other ways and add a cycleway=track to that
> way instead.


no, you should rather do the opposite: remove the preliminary track on
the road and draw the cycleways where they are missing. A separate way
in reality should be a separate way in OSM. Otherwise you are not able
to deal with different surfaces, lane-numbers, situations at
crossings, maxspeeds, access-restrictions, widths, ...


> * Remove parks created from green areas on the satellite that are not really
> parks (adding a tree_lined=yes tag to intersecting way if appropriate).


I suggest to change leisure=park to landuse=grass if it is not a park.


> * Remove walkways that are just side walks.


see above


> * Align hole-in-the-wall ATMs to lie on the edge of the building.


+1, they should IMHO be part of the building way in this case


> * Aligning areas that lie directly next to each other in the real world
> (park next to building with no road in between) so there is no space in
> between (sharing points whenever possible).


+1, when they share node in reality

cheers,
Martin