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

[Luc Van den Troost]

On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 13:13 +0200, Ben Laenen wrote:

> 
> Btw, how did you solve the Frans Jochemsplein issue? Just put it in the 
> ignore list? It looks like you'll need more of those in the ignore list 
> later. They've just gave a new small square a name here in Berchem 
> (Josué Duponplaats), again no roads that can have the name there.
> 
The streetname list got converted to a txt file. with errors. Some
streetnames got corrupted in the conversion. 
'streetnames' that are in the list but give false errors
- streetnames that do not exist as street
- names that give errors due to special characters
are removed from the txt file. 
At the same time i put them in a separate file with the comment why it's
not checked. 


> Perhaps your script shouldn't look at just the roads with a highway 
> tag :-)

Originally the script was made to perform a streetname lookup on a
(partial) streetname. Finding the missing streetnames was just a small
extra step, and kind of spill-off of the main function. 

Thinking of adding a kind of lookup for points of interest too, like
stations, busstops, theatres, parkings, musea, ... 

> And to make it more fun: they've also given the new underground parking 
> near the Nationale Bank on the Leien an official street name "Parking 
> Nationale Bank": 
> http://notulus.antwerpen.be/rs-bin/RightSite.exe/getcontent/C2007-010157.pdf?DMW_OBJECTID=090f45ab80393fdb&DMW_FORMAT=pdf&fext=.pdf
> 

The tunnels are already there, with the right names i guess. There is
just a problem of visibility in the rendered maps, as the tunnels are on
the same location as the roads above. 

http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=51.211655527782284&lon=4.407535475080382&zoom=17&layers=B000F000F


Tagging the tunnels just aside the roads, but with entrance and exit on
the right location might solve this isue, but is geographically
incorrect. 

If you look at OSM / London you get my point. Subway lines that are
constructed under streets are marked just aside of those:
http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=51.514651620820224&lon=-0.1429598791083133&zoom=17&layers=B000F000F


What should we prefer: correctness or usability ??