[OSM-talk] some mapping questions

[Etienne]

Steve
There will be an IRC meeting on August 8, where newbies can ask questions
like this and get answers from some of the more experienced OSMers ;-)

In the meantime...

On 7/21/06, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
>
> Now I live somewhere with more to map (and a view of the sky so the GPS
> gets a lock) I've been getting in to regular mapping.
>
> What do you guys do with all the roads marked 'PRIVATE ROAD' or 'no
> turning' or 'we will shoot you'?


Many private roads are only private in the sense that they are roads that
are not maintained by the local authority.  Just because someone has stuck a
"Private Road" sign at the end does not mean that it is _not_ a public right
of way.

AFAIK there is no real easy way to tell whether or not a public right exists
just by looking at a road.

Many new developments have electronically controlled gates.  These present
more of a challenge and are unlikely to be public rights of way.  Most
however have an unlocked side gate...


I've been going down all of them and
> havn't been challenged.


I've noticed that, in the London area, being a cyclist makes you completely
invisible.

Perhaps NickW or someone who knows about rights
> of way can comment from that angle too?
>
I've also noticed that a lot of the more exclusive roads claim to be
> private dead ends but are in fact nice short cuts.
>
> How do you keep track of stuff that you havn't quite mapped? Say you've
> done an area but you know there are a few more roads off to the side...
> how do you remind yourself a few days later?


I try to be very systematic. See:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Tricks_and_tips#Always_turn_right_.28or_left.29

I also mark incomplete roads with two or three untagged nodes, so it looks
like this: . . .


> I've been leaving
> un-way-grouped segments about on the map to remind me to go back and
> look but it's not perfect. Mapping my area has turned in to one big long
> deja vu: "I'm _sure_ I've been down this close already"... they all look
> alike!
>
> So then when I get out there and try to remember which bits I havn't
> mapped or garbled the names of on the dictaphone... I can't remember.
> Maybe printing out a screenshot from JOSM might help.
>
have fun,
>
> SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/
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