[OSM-talk] Pretoria, South Africa

[Nick Black]

But the ways arent tagged with applet = yahoo, or whatever they should
be if they were made with the applet.

On 1/27/07, Andy Robinson <Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Nick Black wrote:
> >Sent: 27 January 2007 10:11 AM
> >To: Nic Roets
> >Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
> >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Pretoria, South Africa
> >
> >Hi Nic,
> >
> >It looks pretty good - did you do that all yourself?  Thats a whole
> >load of cycling/driving.  I think it'll look really nice when its
> >rendered:
> >
>
> Pretoria is one of those lucky locations to have Yahoo! imagery, so
> presumably that is the source origin of most of the base mapping? But that's
> still a lot of street names to collect in a week, even though they don't all
> appear to be named yet!
>
> Cheers
>
> Andy
>
> Andy Robinson
> Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk
>
> >http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?lat=-
> >25.779306583591687&lon=28.247936449414347&zoom=12
> >
> >You can really enhance the rendering by adding areas, particularly
> >things like parks and open spaces, then you have nice green areas that
> >add some colour to the map.  One thing to note though, when i tried to
> >download the GPS traces for the area, not all of the roads you have
> >drawn have GPS traces associated - if you derived the vectors from GPS
> >traces, its best to upload them to OSM - so that we have "proof" that
> >you actually went out and did the leg work (all becuase of copyright
> >issues).  If you derived them from an old map or something, or if SA
> >doesnt have the same copyright laws as the UK and most countries in
> >Europe, than thats cool.
> >
> >The roads look good though - but you've got a lot of work ahead ;-) -
> >as I remember it the entire N1 coridor from J'berg to Pretoria is
> >surrounded by housing estates.  SA is a good example of how OSM can
> >really kick ass in getting the most up-to-date geo-data around - as
> >there are so many new developments.
> >
> >Also, OSM's flexible ontology and history features fit well for a
> >country like SA, where you have in some cases different names for the
> >same places in different languages.
> >
> >So, good mapping - its always cool to see OSM coverage expanding into
> >new areas.  Hey, if you have any contacts in Durban or Cape Town, I'd
> >fancy a mapping weekend there.  Jan 2008 maybe!
> >
> >Nick
> >
> >On 1/27/07, Nic Roets <nroets at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I've added my home city (Pretoria) to OSM during the last week or so
> >> (approximately 100^2 km). Take a look and tell me if my tagging is OK.
> >>
> >> Particularly, I've taken liberty with road classification : Most roads
> >> are "residential". Then I made all the roads with high traffic
> >> congestion "secondary", even though they are not all wider than a
> >> typical "residential" road. That way it's much easier to read the map.
> >>
> >> lat=-25.84541 to -25.70357
> >> lon=28.09826 to 28.43496
> >>
> >> It will be nice to see it properly rendered at some point.
> >>
> >> Trivia : Pretoria has the second most embassies, after Washington D.C.
> >>
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