[Talk-is] Icelandic road system

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:57, Christoph L. Hess
<christoph at hess-familie.de> wrote:
> This is an even better idea to have all this automated. I was exactly
> thinking this yesterday to put a tag in the relation stating the status
> of the progress and/or maybe even some kind of a quality value?

I see by your edits that you've started adding complete=yes, good stuff.

> In a new version it would maybe great to have some more information. As
> I see this is a list just out of the relation. Is it possible to get
> some information in the list out of the ways, too? Like fixme, source etc?

Yeah it's really basic right now but I'm going to (but don't know
when!) make it more awesome, specifically.

 * Parse vegaskrá and thus display a list of things we don't have (grayed out)
 * Also check the relation members and check:
   * If the name=* network=* and ref=* keys on the ways match the relation
   * Compute per-way and overall source=* statistics
   * How many % of them have maxspeed=*
   * Anything else?

> This would be a great tool for finding and fixing problems. The
> solutions given for quality assurance are not as good. Because there are
> millions of "possible" errors shown and I feel everytime like knocked
> out when looking at it and don't really feel like going on and fixing
> this things. I really think it is not helpful to have errors like
> "maxspeed=35 seems an unusual value" shown - what the heck?! The road
> sign states it like this...

What tool says maxspeed 35 is unusual? Perhaps we should get that fixed.

> I think it is more helpful to know from the human user who exactly knows
> my GPS track was crappy it really would be a good idea to resurvey this...

Yeah, we should tag things like this in the data.

> Great idea and maybe we can somehow combine all this and I really like
> the idea of the possibility to access the data directly. Maybe you can
> implement some kind of an search tool that let's me directly search in
> the data. Or at least choose the ways in a special area. Would be great.
> I forgot a lot on PHP programming in the last years -  maybe I should
> start again...

Or you could patch the Perl behind osm.is:
http://github.com/avar/App-OpenStreetMapIs-Web

The highway list generator is really crappy, but I'm going to try to
make it into a proper tool.