[OSM-talk] City with streets of gold

[Lars Aronsson]

Just like last year, I'm drawing the map of Russia. Then with line 
segments, now with ways. I haven't bothered with Saint Petersburg, 
not then, neither now. But someone else has.  There are lots of 
line segments in this city and now somebody has automatically 
created ways for all of them, all having the same markup:

  name=""
  highway="secondary"
  created_by="GRASS v.build.polylines 14042007"

The latter is apparently the date, Saturday April 14, 2007. Other 
than this, the actions are completely anonymous.  And nothing is 
mentioned on the [[WikiProject Russia]] page.

I don't mind really.  It looks a little funny to have a mesh of 
all-yellow streets (Osmarender layer) and someone will have to go 
in and manually sort them out, but this is not different from the 
required manual labour anyway.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?lat=59.93&lon=30.33&zoom=10

In some cases, these yellow roads extend outside of the city.  
This is when the automatically created ways can become very long. 
At some places, they overlap with some primary/trunk/railway ways 
that I had already drawn at about the same time.  Perhaps the 
GRASS action was based on a planet.osm dump that was a few days 
old?  I think I have now sorted out the roads and railroads 
southeast towards Novgorod.



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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
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