[Talk-ca] GeoBase NRN 093 Complete

Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com
Sat Oct 31 08:19:14 GMT 2009


Congratulations!
Thats maptastic!

Cheers,
Sam


On 10/31/09, Adam Dunn <dunnadam at gmail.com> wrote:
> The road import of tile 093 has just been completed. This includes Williams
> Lake, Quesnel, Prince George, Smithers, Dawson Creek, and everything in
> between. When importing, I tried to fix all topological problems (connecting
> imported roads to existing roads), and fixed roughly drawn roads (obviously
> landsat sourced) so that they more closely match the geometry of the GeoBase
> roads. Road names and classifications were copied over from the excluded set
> where necessary, along with all bridge and tunnel locations, and unpaved
> surface tags (I didn't bother with any other surfaces). I tried to go
> through and mark all obvious oneway roads (dual carriageways), and
> unclassified roads from GeoBase that looked like they should be *_link roads
> were retagged as being *_link and made oneway.
>
> Naturally, there may be some small things that I missed, but hopefully
> people working in 093 will now feel more free to do editing knowing that the
> import has been done.
>
> One thing I noticed is that OSM is going to need some highways naming
> "love". Highway naming in BC is still a mystery to me (even though I've
> lived here many years and been on many roadtrips). I have in the past used
> Wikipedia as a source for highway names, but there was some disagreement
> between Wikipedia and GeoBase for naming. For example, Wikipedia says that
> the Yellowhead Highway goes all the way to the coast from Prince George,
> whereas GeoBase gives it no name for much of that section, and merely gives
> it the moniker "Hwy 16". There were some points where GeoBase even had
> internal conflicts on highway naming (near Dawson Creek, Highway 97 would
> rapidly change from "Hwy 97" to "Hart Highway" then back again, several
> times). Once all of Canada has been imported, we should get some official
> docs and figure out the highway naming. You know; make a get-together of it;
> have some fun.
>
> Adam
>


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