[OSM-talk] Hollywood Sign Rerouting

[Paul Johnson]

Not horribly dissimilar to the (painfully slow) effort I've been having
trying to get a decent transit map of Tulsa.   In both places, political
forces and NIMBYism is pretty much making OSM potentially the only solid
map for the situation.  Tulsa's case is a bit more insidious in that the
official data (which I'm cleaning up in OSM as it was an open dataset) has
stops in impossible places (like inside office blocks), high HDOP, stops
where they're not posted (I've been removing these), and some local idioms
we just have no sensible way to ground truth (flag stops where there is no
sign, around 20,000 of these; nightlines that will stop anywhere safe to do
so up to half a mile off the published route).
On Jan 7, 2015 3:19 PM, "Ethan Nelson" <emann15 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Another bonus to contributing to/using an open project...the data cannot
> be allegedly manipulated by someone or some group.
>
> "Next, the residents, bolstered by the imprimatur of LaBonge's office,
> quietly persuaded [...] a producer of navigation equipment whose GPS units
> are used in cars, as well as mapmakers [...] to steer visitors looking for
> directions to the [Hollywood] sign to avoid Beachwood's streets. These
> changes were enacted between 2012 and 2014."
>
>
> http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/war-hollywood-sign-pits-wealthy-761385
> <http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/war-hollywood-sign-pits-wealthy-761385>
>
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