[Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap street types

[Chaitanya Kuber]

Maybe we should have a howto section on our wiki which is continuously  
updated with tips, tricks and methods on doing various things with OSM  
data.

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Chaitanya Kuber
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On 13 Jul 2008, at 22:19, Bob Hawkins wrote:

> Out of interest, I have opened the England.shp.zip file that is inhttp://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/great_britain/ 
> , grouped the roads.shp file by Type and ordered it by its count.   
> The result can be seen in the attachment.
>
> I suppose, with so many people contributing, one should be quite  
> pleased that,with the exception of 'unsurfaced', all the counts over  
> 1,000 are valid, according to the JOSM Presets drop down, so far as  
> I can determine.
>
> I wonder, though:
> 1. could any cleaning up be done (changing footpath to footway,  
> perhaps)
> 2. does the presence of so many oddities suggest that the use of  
> Keys and Values needs to be more prominent within the OSM website so  
> that users can more readily understand what is acceptable and what  
> is not?
>
> I am a newbie, and I expect experienced users will have more  
> valuable observations and suggestions.  I should welcome discussion  
> on this topic.
>
> On a final note: I have found it difficult to readily find answers  
> to all the questions that arise as a newcomer.  They are often out  
> there somewhere, usually found by Googling and trolling through  
> countless pages.  I do feel it would be such a benefit to people  
> like me to have a structered and detailed Help file in one place.
>
> Bob Hawkins <Street types.csv>
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