[OSM-Talk-ZA] Another newbie

[Russell Cloran]

Hi Adrian,

On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 07:00 +0200, Adrian Moisey wrote:
> I'm also a newbie.  Very keen on OSM.  I'm busy mapping the Southern
> Southern Southern Suburbs of Cape Town (Fish Hoek area)

> It would be great if someone can go down south and see the work I've
> done to comment on it,  I'm not sure if I'm doing it correctly or not.

One thing I noticed while panning over Fish Hoek the other day was that
the ways North of the main road at:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-34.13472806713196&lon=18.42087968919076&zoom=15

aren't actually linked to the main road. Is this intended? I don't know
the geography of Fish Hoek, so if it is the actual geography, just tell
me to hush :)

One thing which I continually try to keep in mind that the data can be
used on a navigational system -- in other words, ways should be linked
by common nodes if there is an intersection.

That said, I would like it if I could have some comments on what I've
done around city centre -- mainly North of Buitensingel near Bree St and
South of the M6 near Napier St.

One of the concerns I have is that I'm mapping roads with an island as
two ways with oneway=yes. This works nicely at high zoom levels, but at
lower zoom levels (especially on osmarender) it looks a bit silly -- you
get two street names which almost overlap.

Russell