[OSM-talk-be] Mapbox, road completeness, CIA factbook

[Marc Gemis]

100% in Germany, The Netherlands, Luxembourg as well. Wonder why the
CIA thinks there are so many hidden roads in Belgium :-)
Or (more seriously) why the definition of road would be different for
Belgium compare to the other countries.

I cannot tell for Bolivia, but the Belgian roads are similar to other
Western European countries, so I would expect the CIA to use the same
definition there.

On the blog that was mentioned, you find a twitter address to contact
the Mapbox people. Maybe they can help ?

regards

m


On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 9:30 AM, joost schouppe
<joost.schouppe at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think in the CIA's imagination :)
>
> Huge differences like that, I'm afraid it says more about the differences of
> the definition of what consists of a motor road. For instance, I know the
> road network in OSM Bolivia to be far from complete as to smaller motor
> roads, but it's way over 100% of the CIA number. So they probably only took
> the main road network as a measure. Meanwhile, OSM is mapping roads that no
> other map has ever mapped :)
>
> 2015-11-20 9:00 GMT+01:00 eMerzh <merzhin at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Interesting.... thanks for the link ....
>>
>> but it seems surprising no?
>> France is at 100% and us at 73? ... it's kind of low no? any idea where
>> those road are?
>>
>> 2015-11-20 6:52 GMT+01:00 Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> Mapbox made a tool [1] to see how complete the road networks in a
>>> country are. Belgium got a 73%
>>> They blogged about it in [2]
>>>
>>>
>>> regards
>>>
>>>
>>> m
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] https://www.mapbox.com/data-platform/country/#belgium
>>> [2] https://www.mapbox.com/blog/how-complete-is-openstreetmap/
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