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

[Pieter-Jan Pauwels]

Yes, quite interested to hear more about this! 
Would be an excellent topic for a blogpost on openbelgium.be, or osm.be for that matter!

PJ
	
Pieter-Jan Pauwels
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> On 20 Nov 2015, at 09:51, Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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