[Talk-ca] Jasper, Hinton and Edson

[James Ewen]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Steve Singer <ssinger_pg at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> My import of road data in Alberta is getting into areas that seem to have
> some local mappers (versus much of northern Alberta that seemed pretty
> sparse)
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.498&lon=-116.498&zoom=10&layers=B000FTFT

I poked around northwestern Alberta, and was impressed with the amount
of data that now exists where once it was a barren wasteland!
Unfortunately some fool tracked highway 43 right through the middle of
it all, and screwed up the import.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=54.1814&lon=-115.7484&zoom=12&layers=B000FTF

You can see my old highway 43, and the Geobase imported section which
is tagged as a trunk highway. I only tracked one side of the highway
on my trip home from northern BC, so there are parts of the northbound
lanes that made it past the roadmatcher.

We'll need to grab the rest of the data for the highways that I
tracked, and replace what exists now.

> isn't a bad link for seeing some of what I've imported.  Jasper, Hinton and
> Edson are some examples of communities that were already well mapped
> and the import has expanded on.

I dunno about the comment about "well mapped" comment about Hinton and
Edson, unless someone else has been in there recently. Aha, I see EC90
is a new mapper in the area, along with Fudoreaper. Good to have some
new activity. I think when people see a blank page, it can be pretty
intimidating, but when there's something there to play with, it's a
little easier to get sucked into making "just one little tweak or
two".

> You can view the NRN roads excluded(left out) of the import at
> http://www.mediafire.com/?ng40oxg4ztx  (this can be opened in JOSM). I am
> hoping some mappers will integrate some of the roads that were excluded and
> start connecting the previous OSM ways with the imported roads (where
> required).  I am hoping the excluded file makes this process easier than it
> was for Fort McMurray.

That excluded file sure would be nice to have for the Ft. McMurray
area. I got frustrated trying to snip the pieces needed out of the
full file to try and patch over the parts that were matched and
excluded. It's a lot of work trying to delete everything but the
little bit that you are interested in from the full file. Having only
the roads that have been excluded would make that process much faster
and easier.

> Also if anyone is familiar with the Jasper area I'm kind of curious what
> this
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.84602&lon=-118.07543&zoom=15&layers=B000FTFT
> is? If you know the answer feel free to add the proper tag.

Whistler and Wapiti Campgrounds... they need to be demoted down to a
very low level roadway. The map features page suggests highway=service
for roads in campsites. But, the important thing is that they are in
there, now they just need to have a little bit of tagging cleanup
done.

James
VE6SRV