[Talk-ca] Beginner questions
Frank Cox
theatre at melvilletheatre.com
Mon Apr 16 18:19:43 BST 2012
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:45:22 -0400
Richard Weait wrote:
> > First, with regard to street classification. I see, among others,
> > highway-tertiary, highway-unclassified and highway-residential.
>
> unclassified and residential are the same thing, except residential is
> for residential areas. Anything less-important would be an alley or
> driveway (highway = service) or something-not-a-street.
Therefore, an important street in a commercial area is "unclassified"? Or
something else?
>
> > What
> > classification should the streets in a town's commercial district be, i.e.
> > something like "Main Street"?
>
> There should be no harm in making Main Street more prominent, even if
> it is not a strict match to the classification guidelines.
My question is how to do that. It seems that a commercial street should have
more prominence than a residential street, but I don't see a commercial street
category.
> > I seem to have somehow ended up with duplicate streets, side-by-side. So
> > the obvious fix would probably be to delete one of them, leave the other,
> > and name and classify the one that's left. Is this correct?
>
> Somehow? Might you and another mapper have been editing at the same
> time? What else might it be? Normally, if you add an object once, it
> only gets added to the database once.
I'm not altogether sure of what exactly happened, since I downloaded the
exiting data, added the CANVEC data, and uploaded the result. It appears that
I now have two streets, slightly offset from each other. I plan to delete one
set of streets and fix the other once I know how to classify them. If I have
to over all of the streets to classify them and name them, there's no point in
doing it twice.
Is it important to actually outline a street, or is a simple line from point A
to point B sufficient?
> > Also, how do you find the detailed information on the web page after
> > entering it? For example, if I add a website or contact information to a
> > building node, how can I read that information if I go to the
> > openstreetmap.org website and search for my town?
>
> Use the search box on the left hand menu. I just looked for, and
> found the right answer:
> "Melville Theatre"
> "restorex, melville sk"
> "Flamingo Restaurant" - 2 answers returned
>
> Is that what you had in mind?
Not completely. When I entered the data for the Flamingo Restaurant I also
entered their telephone number. Where did that go?
New questions:
How should I classify a shop that does multiple, apparently unrelated things.
For example, there is one business that sells saddles and prints a newspaper.
What should I classify a towing service as? I can't find either towing or
wrecker in the list of classifications.
Same question for the Woo Ladies fortune telling shop.
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