[Talk-us-massachusetts] Missing and unnamed streets

[Greg Troxel]

Jim Snyder-Grant <jim.snyder.grant at gmail.com> writes:

> I'm a bit rusty in OSM, but I know Acton well, and I can deal with ODS
> spreadsheets in LibreOffice and SHP files in QGIS.  I haven't followed all
> the technical detail, but I'd be happy to help.
>
> I think my first task is to look at the Acton streets listed in
>  https://mega.nz/#!TxlABapS!4MNK5R4UQEkeLjj1pNISufQMNgGs2Vl1YvLGFU4RU3A
> and evaluate them.
>
> What do I do next?
>
> If the street exists, and I can reliably locate it, I can add it to OSM. I
> just did that for the new "Cindy Lane":
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/61694902#map=17/42.44630/-71.43720
> Are there particular tags or changeset comments that would be best to use?
> (This one was particularly easy to locate, as the building at 1 Cindy Lane
> is already in OSM, and the street is already in Acton's online GIS at
> https://actonma.mapgeo.io )

If you change OSM so that it's right, and it happens to match MAD,
there's nothing else to do.  A future run of the code will then not
throw a mismatch.

> What should I do if I determine that a name in the spreadsheet is a
> mistake, either a misspelling of an existing street, or a street that
> doesn't exist yet, or what?
> Is there a place we are recording the disposition of streets?

We don't really have a coherent plan yet, I think.

Two sub-issues:

1) figure out how to report to the address authorities.  THese are
per-town.  In Stow it's the Clerk.   If the acton authority is somebody
you know, that might be interesting to talk to them if you can point to
something wrong in the MAD without having to compare to OSM.

2) figure out how to mark things to be excluded from the import.  Two
sub-parts to this: things not matching won't be imported (I think), and
some list of things that are known bad (can apply to points that do
match, but are wrong, one of which I've found in Stow).

> Sorry if this has already been covered. I've had a bit of eyes-glazed-over
> at the awesomely deep and careful technical comments.

It has been evolving.  We are still in the figure-it-out stage.
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