[OSM-talk] Russia free for the taking

[Lars Aronsson]

This time last year, I found existing tracks in Russia 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/User:LA2/Diary_for_Q4_2005 
that had been uploaded and then abandoned.  I took on to draw line 
segments for the 1000 km road between St Petersburg and Murmansk 
and for other roads going out east and south of St Petersburg, as 
well as tracks through Finland and Estonia.  I have not been there 
and don't know which types of roads these are, and at the time 
there was very little support for anything except simple line 
segments.

The current tile renderer doesn't render anything for simple line 
segments, that have no ways or attributes, so these roads will 
remain invisible.  I have seen no other people actively drawing 
roads in these areas, outside of urban St Petersburg.  I'm not 
going back there.  If I can regain any energy at all, I might work 
on the map in Sweden.

An old plot can be found on the page for "Wikiproject Russia",
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8F



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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se