[Openstreetmap] naming Roads

Sean Burlington sean at uncertainty.org.uk
Wed Nov 9 15:04:51 GMT 2005


The new key value stuff has immediately made it possible to produce
useful maps of my area :-)

Of course I now have some feature requests ...

Some roads have been put in that don't seem to relate well to the GPS
tracks -

presumably this is sometimes when they have been entered based on one
set of tracks only - and subsequent tracks have made the line clearer

but sometimes it just seems random - relating neither to the tracks nor
to my knowledge of the real roads.

Currently it's hard to decide what to do with these paths - it would be
easier if I could

* turn off the roads (or make them semi transparent)

* undo deletions if I make a mistake
(or add a save button so changes don't get made till I'm done)

Also some areas have been *very* well traversed by GPS carriers - and it
seems that the GPS tracks are only shown if there are less than 5000? of
them in the display area - this means that I can only see tracks if
zoomed in really close.

e.g. - no GPS tracks
http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit/edit-map.html?lat=51.52&lon=-0.05&scale=4e-05

* Would it be possible to show tracks at least for the central area when
editing

The Roadmap and Ideas pages on the wiki...
http://www.openstreetmap.org/wiki/index.php/Roadmap_For_Version_1.0

...states that there is no plan to include places of interest as
polygons - but there are a lot of routes shown that go through parks
(and there are parks that are almost covered in yellow GPS dots) - it
would make the map much clearer if these areas could be shown.

Finally - I was looking at OSMApplett which refers to

 processing.core.PApplet;
 processing.core.PImage;
 processing.core.PFont;

which I couldn't find - are these in svn?


-- 

Sean




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