[OSM-talk-be] the state of OpenStreetmap in Antwerpen

[Ben Laenen]

On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Luc Van den Troost wrote:
> Just did an update.
>
> the most recent results (with timestamp) can be found on
> http://www.bb2000.be/stratenzoeker/state.html
> (have that page linked on the 'mapping projects' -> 'belgium' ->
> 'antwerpen' wiki page)
> the list of the missing/misspelled streetnames is on
> http://www.bb2000.be/stratenzoeker/vergelijkstraten.csv

Thanks

> For Berchem it still shows Frans Jochemsplein missing, but it seems
> to be on tagged as an area and not a street (highway) (?). I can put
> it in the 'exceptions' list of names from the streetnames list that
> are not checked.

Yeah, as said before, there is no road that can be tagged like that. All 
roads around Frans Jochemsplein have different names, so I just named 
the area inside it, and since you can't walk there I couldn't make it 
highway=pedestrian either.

There are similar issues as well. Te Boelaarpark is also a street name 
according to the list, while it's obviously only the name of a park and 
not of a road, yet the school inside that park has address "Te 
Boelaarpark", so...

> Also harbour docks seem to be on the 'official streetname list'
> although there is no 'street' with that name around (for instance
> Napoleondok), or streetnames exist for streets that have been removed
> (MAS is being build on a few 'streets' that are in the list,
> Petroleum Zuid has some streets that have been removed and sanitized.
> Probably they will not return as there are other plans with that
> area.

I always thought that one could see the quays along the docks as the 
entities that get that address. But I don't really know it. Would a 
hangar along the docks have the name of the dock or the name of the 
road on the other side of the hangar?

> Also for the streets that give problems due to special characters I
> put them in this exception list. They are on the 'state' page.

Or fix the scripts? :-p

> I also noticed that osmarenderer seems to have problems with special
> characters, that are displayed as html code like
> D'Herbouvillekaai instead of D'Herbouvillekaai.
>
> On the wiki page for Antwerpen I allso added a small list of streets
> that are known to be spelled differently on the official list and the
> streetsigns. Who finds other might add them there, and when it is
> more or less final we might send it to the city. The list might use
> some layout as well (table?) but i am not that experienced in wiki
> editing...

And I've already added  some more from Berchem. I really get the idea 
that the firm making those signs (most signs in Berchem were made in 
one go, they are getting replaced slowly nowadays) wasn't really 
thorough at the time...

Reminds me to ask what was different with the first name in that column 
except that the one in the second column is all uppercase.

> Luc.

Ben