[Talk-GB] Intro and question about coventry

[Andy Robinson]

Damian,

Welcome to OSM

Some of those segments are probably mine as I've travelled into Coventry
from Birmingham, mainly via the A45, on a number of occasions. Part of the
reason why segments don't get converted into ways is that those travelling
are not local and its difficult to know when a way logically starts and
stops (eg as the road name changes). Someone local such as yourself has a
much better chance of getting it right.

So to answer your question I'm sure you will not be treading on anyone's
toes and it will be great to see Coventry starting to appear in the
rendering.

Cannot help you on the shape file I'm afraid though.

Keep an eye also on the Midlands User Group (MUG) on the wiki.

Cheers,

Andy Robinson (Blackadder)
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: talk-gb-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb-
>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Damocov
>Sent: 29 November 2006 7:24 PM
>To: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [Talk-GB] Intro and question about coventry
>
>Hi there guys, I've just started out with openstreetmap and am getting
>really into it (god I sound like a really sad geek), I'm in the Coventry
>area and I've started mapping the roads around where I liveand have got
>a question about protocol for creating ways form segments.
>
>I've noticed that somone has created a whole load of nodes and segments
>of the major trunk and primary roads around Coventry, but hasn;t created
>any ways as yet for them.
>
>Am I going to be treading on anyone's toes if I start to turn them into
>ways and tag them?
>
>At the moment I'm uploading minor roads but I'd like to try and get the
>map of my home looking a bit better by sorting out the major roads too.
>
>Damian Fell (damocov)
>
>P.S.
>Is there anyway I can take my shapefiles of the local area I've been
>collecting for the last umpteen years from old gps logs and convert
>them, other than by laoding as GPX files via GPSU? (really wish I'd kept
>the source data now - grrr)
>
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