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

[Ben Laenen]

On Thursday 18 September 2008, Luc Van den Troost wrote:
> 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.

That's just an encoding problem then. Just use UTF-8 everywhere and 
there shouldn't be any problems. It's better to have them in the text 
file so they can keep getting automatically checked.


> 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=-0.1429
>598791083133&zoom=17&layers=B000F000F
>
>
> What should we prefer: correctness or usability ??

correctness all the way. That tunnels aren't rendered well is the 
renderer problem, and something like making subways appear over streets 
is actually very easy in mapnik.

Ben