[OSM-np] Suspicious edits in some areas in Kathmandu

[Prabhas Pokharel]

Also see the discussion on this very list in July regarding this topic.
If you have additional feedback, feel free to hit reply to this thread:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-np/2012-July/thread.html#42or
the discussion section of the Nepal Roads article.

On Wednesday, October 10, 2012, bibekshrestha at gmail.com wrote:

> It's primarily based on personal judgement as there is no strict
> classification. Do refer to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nepal/Roadsfor the description.
> --
> Bibek Shrestha
> bibekshrestha at gmail dot com
> Twitter: http://twitter.com/bibstha
> "You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.", Eames to
> Arthur, Inception 2010
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> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:42 AM, amrit karmacharya <amrit.im at gmail.com>wrote:
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> Do we know the hierarchy of the classification?
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> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 3:24 PM, bibekshrestha at gmail.com <
> bibekshrestha at gmail.com> wrote:
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> There are no tertiary because initially we decided we will avoid it.
> So we'd try to cover the streets inside the city with primary, secondary
> for major streets, residential for normal streets.
> Although, I have seen some discussions earlier regarding tertiary streets,
> for example the ones that run along rivers (bagmati, ...) which cannot be
> classified as primary / secondary nor residential.
> That could be marked as tertiary.
>
> I welcome any suggestions or discussions backed my examples on this.
>
> Cheers
> --
> Bibek Shrestha
> bibekshrestha at gmail dot com
> Twitter: http://twitter.com/bibstha
> "You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.", Eames to
> Arthur, Inception 2010
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:21 AM, amrit karmacharya <amrit.im at gmail.com>wrote:
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> there is no tertiary, trunk, unclassified roads.
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> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 2:45 PM, bibekshrestha at gmail.com <
> bibekshrestha at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Amrit,
>
> We had a pretty long discussion among which tags to use for roads in Nepal
> and came up with some kind of agreement.
> You can check what tags we use here
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nepal/Roads
>
> Cheers
> --
> Bibek Shrestha
> bibekshrestha at gmail dot com
> Twitter: http://twitter.com/bibstha
> "You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.", Eames to
> Arthur, Inception 2010
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 7:56 AM, amrit karmacharya <amrit.im at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> data quality has always been an issue for any kind of geographic data. We
> need more mappers from different localities for this and need to grow our
> OSM community. But location is only one aspect of data quality, attributes
> provide life to the data. it is also high time to agree on standard for
> object (like roads, hotels, tea shops, co-operatives, tuition centers). we
> should have discussions on these topics.
>
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> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Nama Budhathoki <namabudhathoki at gmail.com
> > wrote:
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> Hi Mappers,
>
> It would be good if those who have local knowledge could correct those
> roads. Leaving incorrect data in OSM for long time will have detrimental
> effect to our effort. Many people raise questions of data quality in
> user-contributed data. It is difficult for them to accept that ordinary
> people can produce amazing maps. If those suspicious minds see these
> incorrect roads, it will only help them to spread mistrust about the whole
> dataset.
>
> Nama
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> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:01 PM, amr
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