[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Remapping efforts in Coventry

[Big Fat Frog]

Can someone help me on the background to this effort?  What are these 
licensing issues and the tool that is linked, is that a private tool or 
is is provided for use by anyone?

I've only been doing this mapping for 6 months or so and am still trying 
to get to know what tools are available and what efforts are going on.

Cheers

BTW I'm based in Redditch, although this w/e I'm down in North London!

Jon
(bigfatfrog67)

On 23/03/2012 20:16, Rob Nickerson wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Over the last few weeks there has been a lot of effort made on remapping
> Coventry so that it remains in a reasonable state when we shift to the
> new license/contributor terms. If you can remember the amount of bad
> orange & red ways from a month ago, take a look on [1] to see the
> fantastic amount of work that has been done. We have had several users
> contributing, both in replacing v1 roads and generally taking the
> opportunity to improve the map (e.g. using Bing imagery).
>
> I have recently focused on examining the history of many of the 'orange'
> status roads, and applying the odbl=clean tag when appropriate. Many of
> these roads were flagged as orange due to highway=unclassified being
> changed to highway=residential. As this is deemed a trivial edit (as it
> is clear from Bing which roads are residential), I have marked them as
> clean (this easily took longer than had I been the original mapper
> setting the residential tag as I had to examine the history of each way
> to check for other non-relicensable edits :-( )
>
> I have (99%) completed this task now - Thus any objects still
> highlighted on [1] will likely need a ground survey as the non-compliant
> tags can not be determined from Bing. This includes:
>
> 1. Places of Worship (marked on OS StreetView but often requires a site
> visit for the name)
> 2. A couple of schools (as above)
> 3. Post Boxes
> 4. A few roads with restrictions (e.g. maxheight/maxweight)
>
> I am away for the following week so will unfortunately not be able to
> continue ground surveys to collect this information. If anyone has the
> time then that would be much appreciated, otherwise we can fill in the
> missing info at a later date :-)
>
>
> Relations
> --------------
> Some relations (bus routes) may be missing a few roads come April. I
> have yet to have a look at relations but believe that if you view the
> relations history (on DeepDiff or JOSM) and it is ok then you can apply
> the odbl=clean tag to the RELATION (i.e. not the individual roads).
> Seeing as Curran1980 appears to have recently updated all bus routes
> after the network changes in February, you could easily argue that they
> can all be marked as clean (?).
>
>
> Thanks again to everyone helping out with remapping efforts - even if
> just a few nodes.
>
> Cheers,
> RobJN
>
> [1]
> http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=wtfe&lon=-1.52133&lat=52.41458&zoom=12&overlays=overview,wtfe_line_inrelation,wtfe_point_modified,wtfe_line_modified_cp,wtfe_line_modified,wtfe_point_created,wtfe_line_created_cp,wtfe_line_created
> <http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=wtfe&lon=-1.52133&lat=52.41458&zoom=12&overlays=overview,wtfe_line_inrelation,wtfe_point_modified,wtfe_line_modified_cp,wtfe_line_modified,wtfe_point_created,wtfe_line_created_cp,wtfe_line_created>
>
>
>
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