[OSM-talk] Pretoria, South Africa

[Andy Robinson]

Nick Black [mailto:nickblack1 at gmail.com] wrote:
>Sent: 27 January 2007 2:06 PM
>To: Andy Robinson
>Cc: Nic Roets; talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Pretoria, South Africa
>
>But the ways arent tagged with applet = yahoo, or whatever they should
>be if they were made with the applet.
>

Nick,

Neither are mine from Yahoo! I place the nodes with the applet but do the
rest, specifically the tagging, in JOSM. It's really the nodes that should
be given a Yahoo! source tag.

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk

>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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