[Talk-ca] Modifying GeoBase Ways.

[Austin Henry]

- James Ewen arranged a host of electrons thusly: -
> 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.

[snip]

> 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.

Here I am replying to a dead thread again, but... While out mapping
trails in the rain a possible solution occurred to me (couldn't see
anything but the trail, so...)

My opinion: Tweak the geobase way to more closely match what you saw on
the ground.  Nuke the attribution tag -- it's no longer just their data.
Do leave the geobase:uuid, it still identifies the same bit(s) of road.
Change source to be "Geobase(r); GPS".  Toast the acquisitionTechnique
tag, and might as well toss the rest of the (not already mentioned)
geobase tags while you're at it -- the UUID uniquely identifies the
roads, the rest of the bits were just for us search-impaired humans.

> 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.

1.5 lanes makes sense to me.  If there's a way to specify a width in
meters, you could do that too (or instead?).

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

Whatever you feel is appropriate, of course :)  I'm sure you've already
done so, but perhaps my musings are useful to you or someone else.

peace,
	Austin.

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