[Talk-in] Time for consensus

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

sorry - it is practical and it will happen - go read the basic philosophy 
behind OSM - accurate maps updated regularly by people who have seen the 
spot. There is somewhere on the wiki a picture of a fire engine trying to 
negotiate a narrow road wrongly marked on google maps. Just concentrate on 
looking after your own area and making it as accurate as possible - other 
people will look after the rest. This is open source - it will happen.

On Thursday 16 October 2008 03:54:17 pm Ganesh Krishnamurthy wrote:
> Kenneth,
>
> Like others said, it is impractical to keep the roads constantly updated
> based on road condition. I would like to bring up another point. If you
> mark a portion of a national highway a territiary road, the software (Mikel
> correct me if am wrong) will break the highway at the at high level zoom of
> the map. We should make the national highways to display uniformly across
> the country. Agree with PlaneMad, road conditions can be an overlay
> (similar to kayak maps and bikers maps), and not be part of the base map.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ganesh
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:42 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon at au-kbc.org>wrote:
> > On Thursday 16 October 2008 11:51:58 am Shajeer Mohammed wrote:
> > > It is great to have a dedicated person like you who can map and make
> > > changes to roads as their condition changes. But for most people
> >
> > including
> >
> > > me, I rarely go back and vist the same road once its mapped.
> >
> > not dedication - I travel these roads every day. So can update the
> > condition
> > daily. Which is the case with all of us - we maintain our areas.
> > Currently there are about 10-12 active people in India, but soon there
> > will be thousands - in that case daily updates of road conditions is
> > possible. That is why we are better than google
> >
> > > So if we cant
> > > come up with once standard lets then come up with 2!. Even though there
> >
> > are
> >
> > > no standards on construction quality, number of lanes etc..., there is
> > > a standard on the ownership of the roads. NHAI owns all National
> > > Highways
> >
> > and
> >
> > > Bypasses. State government PWD owns all state highways and local roads
> >
> > are
> >
> > > owned by local civic bodies.
> > > So looks like the disagreement is on tagging national highways and
> > > state highways. I guess we all agree on express ways?
> >
> > We all agree on expressways - no problem
> >
> > 1. Trunk - connecting major cities. So we have to agree on major cities:
> >
> > metros - Mum, Chen, Del and Kol (maybe also bengaluru and hyderabad)
> >
> > 2. Primary - connecting 2 tier cities to each other and to major cities
> >
> > 2 tier cities: coimbatore, pune, madurai, mangalore, ahmedabad ...
> >
> > 3. Secondary - connecting district headquarters to state capitals or
> > other district headquarters
> >
> > 4. Everything else tertiary or less
> >
> > This is regardless of who owns the road
> >
> > Within cities - just map using common sense - basically, size of the road
> > and
> > amount of usage.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > regards
> > Kenneth Gonsalves
> > Associate
> > NRC-FOSS
> > http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/
> >
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regards
Kenneth Gonsalves
Associate
NRC-FOSS
http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/