[OSM-talk] To John Bright (unwayed segments to unclassified ways)

[Doru-Julian Bugariu]

Jon Bright schrieb:

> Doru-Julian Bugariu wrote:
>> It is not helpfull to convert untagged segments to ways of type
>> highway=unclassified. Converting segments this way, makes it almost
>> impossible to find them after conversion to tag them properly.
> 
> Which area are you talking about?  I touched two areas yesterday and 
> wayed a lot of segments in both places.  In both places, I took some 
> care to only tag things that were obviously highways as such - using 
> satellite imagery, or hints such as roundabouts - which cycleways and 
> footways tend not to have.

I'm talking about the region around Bergisch Gladbach (near Cologne) in
Germany. Coordinates: 51.01° 7.15°

And yes, I noticed, you tried to touch only segments that were highways.
;-) I went yesterday morning to work with a few new ways in my PDA to
check them, and when I came home, those streets were already of type
unclassifed and I had to delete the conflicts by hand.. :-)

To answer why there are a lot of unwayed segments around my area (of
course not all mapped by me): I had started a similar project to OSM and
was already collecting data (gpx) for at least one year before I heard
of OSM. Unfortunately I focused on the "physical" layer (coordinates) of
the streets, not their name. Therefore I have only a lot of gpx data for
the region. That's why I mapped only segments. I simply do not know the
name or ref for some of the highways and streets.

I'm converting those segments to ways as soon as I have the chance to
visit the locations again, but this is not very often. Using
maps.google.com is not allowed AFAIK and the quality of google maps for
this area is quite poor (wrong names, old map data and so on.)

The problem with unclassified ways is, that one does not really know if
that way is unclassified, or automatically converted from an "work in
progress" bunch of segments.

That's wy I'm suggesting to convert all the segments with an specific
tag and update the validator plugin and maplint accordingly. I'm afraid
that converting the top 100 posted by Frederik(?) only to have less
segments to convert is the wrong way.


Greetings,
Banny


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