[Talk-us-massachusetts] Something is wrong with roadway widths

[Greg Troxel]

Angela Morley <amorley at protonmail.com> writes:

> It appears the width values were imported as feet units, but were not
> appended with imperial symbols to designate so.

Yes, I believe that's what happened.  We should be able to do some
subsequent re-import of the roads data, overwriting attributes that have
not been modified since the earlier import.

> The lane rendering plugin on JOSM won't render width values with
> imperial symbols, which isn't an issue on the OSM data side, but does
> preclude using it to diagnose and fix these issues reliably.

That's buggy of the josm plugin.  Maybe you can file a bug report, which
I hope will be more useful than practicing bug reports :-)

> I think these should be fixed. In cases where roadway directions are
> split, the width= value should be divided by half, and appended with a
> "'" symbol to indicate feet, OR converted to metric. If the segment is
> both directions together, either add the "'" symbol, or convert to
> metric.

I would be inclined to leave this to a roads update process following
successful completion of addresses.  The large-scale edits take a very
long time to do, but save many hours of tedious editing.  So I fix
things as I edit something anyway, sometimes, but I avoid efforts to fix
things like that.
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