[Talk-ca] Bad upload in Pembroke Ontario

Peter Freeman petersfreeman at gmail.com
Sat Apr 10 05:40:28 BST 2010


Hi Richard,

In 2008, I cycled across Canada with Tour du Canada.  The route we took
avoided highways as much as possible and I recorded the track each day
on my GPS and uploaded it onto my laptop.  At the time, I was using
Garmin's City Navigator and was unaware of OSM.  in 2009, I discovered
OSM and used these GPS traces to add roads that did not exist in OSM and
to improve the accuracy of those that did.  As well I added various
features like campgrounds, etc.

This year, I am cycling across Canada again.  Unlike the supported trip
with Tour du Canada, I am doing it with my wife on our Tandem pulling a
B.O.B. trailer with our camping gear.  Although I have Garmin's City
Navigator, I am planning on using OSM for this trip as it has cycleways
and much more detail in a lot of areas.  To prepare for the trip, I am
downloading the OSM based routable maps from:

http://garmin.na1400.info/routable.php

and building the route for each leg of the journey using MapSource.  In
doing so, I have discovered a lot of unconnected roads such as the ones
in Pembroke, Ontario.  In nearly all cases, the disconnected roads
appear to be caused by bulk uploads and are easy to fix using JOSM.

As I live on the west coast of Canada, I am unable to map Pembroke,
Ontario, however at best, I could use my GPS trace to fix up the roads
upon which we will travel.

Cheers,

Peter  

On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 06:04 -0430, Richard Weait wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Peter Freeman <petersfreeman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What happened in Pembroke Ontario?  The Primary and Secondary highways are
> > all broken up.  Was it an upload that went bad?
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> That appears to be the case.  Is Pembroke an area that you can help
> improve?  Can map on the ground there? I'll be very happy to assist.
> 
> Best regards,
> Richard


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