[Talk-us] Is this a bad import or an experiment?

[Eric Ladner]

I can clean it up (manually), if everybody agrees.
  * remove small polygonal driveways
  * convert larger polygonal highways to actual highways where appropriate

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 9:27 AM Tod Fitch <tod at fitchdesign.com> wrote:

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> On Mar 22, 2017, at 4:59 AM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mar 22, 2017 7:49 AM, "Paul Johnson" <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 6:33 AM, Eric Ladner <eric.ladner at gmail.com>
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> http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/33.74152/-116.29677
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> So much wrongness..  I don't even know where to start in describing it.
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>  This really "feels" like a botched import that has the potential to
> become something actually good.  I've reached out.
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/38292137
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> I noticed this yesterday when working on broken relations... It doesn't
> look like an import (mostly because they used iD and the digitization looks
> like hand drawn iD) but the tagging doesn't look right. I'd say it's a
> mapping project (they called it a "draw party") with good intentions but
> that might need some tagging cleanup.
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> At least the stuff I first notice looking at that in JOSM (highway=* drawn
> as polygons without an area tag and also including a landuse=residential)
> are from single commits from a mapper that was active for several months a
> few years ago. Change set claims source is Bing. Sounds like a well meaning
> but flawed contribution by a new mapper who has now moved on from OSM.
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