[Talk-ca] Modifying GeoBase Ways.

[James Ewen]

Okay, I need some advise...

I drove a nice little twisty back road today, and captured it with my
Blackberry. I have the trace uploaded to OSM, and have looked at it in
relation to the GeoBase way.

GeoBase Way
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/31847379

GPS Track
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/VE6SRV/traces/566355

The GeoBase way has an acquisition source of Orthoimage, and it is a
little less than a perfect representation of the real way. My GPS
track would appear to do a better job of representing the actual way.
If I were to replace the existing way with a copy of my GPS track,
what should I do with the tags? Do I copy all the tags over?

I would plan on replacing the existing way with a track made from my GPS trace.

highway:tertiary, is_in: Camrose County, name:Range Road 204a,
surface:unpaved will all stay, as they are all still valid
descriptors.

Should attribution stay? The way is no longer from GeoBase, but the
tag information would be.
Same for the source tag... some information is from the
Geobase_Import_2009, while some is not.
geoBase:acquisitionTechnique is no longer Orthoimage, but should this
be replaced by a tag stating that it is now GPS tracked?
Do I leave the geobase:datasetName:NRN:Alberta, or should that go?
I think the geobase:uuid tag should stay to allow future
identification against the GeoBase database.
lanes:2 probably needs a tweak. The twisty part of this road is not
what I would consider 2 lanes. Meeting a regular sized vehicle would
require both vehicles to nearly stop, and pass each other with two
wheels in the ditch each. I would call this at best 1.5 lanes wide.

So, what to do, what to do???

James
VE6SRV