[OSM-talk] Haiti street names

Richard Fairhurst richard at systemeD.net
Tue Jan 19 00:20:31 GMT 2010


The Port-au-Prince map is astonishing but we're short on street names  
in some places.

I've added a 1994 US military map as one of the background layers in  
Potlatch. You can use this to add street names easily.

Full details are at:
	http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Street_names

but in brief:
- open Potlatch
- select 'Haiti: street names' and check 'Highlight unnamed roads' in  
the options dialogue
- *important* - align the imagery (space-drag)
- find a street highlighted in red
- copy name from US map
- repeat until complete :)

Helpful keypresses:
- N to go straight to the name tag (new!)
- Caps Lock (when not inputting a tag) to dim ways/nodes
- f2 to f6 to select different Haiti imagery layers

The original map sometimes numbers streets where there wasn't enough  
room to fit them on the map. You can find the numbers using the street  
index. I've uploaded this, plus the key and list of other numbered  
features; links from the wiki page.

Thanks to the Map Warper guys for rectifying the map and Chris Schmidt  
for tiling it.

cheers
Richard




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