[OSM-talk] Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue

[Marc Gemis]

I've seen this topic being discussed here or elsewhere in the past. I
thought that the consensus was that in some area's (a Spanish town I
believe), it was ok to leave the oneway=no. The reasoning was that most
streets in that town were oneway=yes, and the oneway=no was used to
indicate that this road was surveyed and and an exception to the oneway=yes.

so a world-wide mechanical edit should not be performed.

regards

m

On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 31/05/2015 10:51 AM, Mike Thompson wrote:
>
>> I have posted this issue to the Craigslist feedback forum, but I also
>> thought I would post it here to see if anyone has a specific contact at
>> Cragislist that handles their map rendering.  They use - and credit -
>> OpenStreetMap (which is wonderful), but I believe they perform their own
>> custom rendering, which seems to be the source of this issue.
>>
>> The issue is that some streets that are not one way in OSM data, are
>> rendered as one way by Craigslist.
>>
>> If you go to this ad and zoom in on the map you will see the arrows
>> designating one way streets, for example on Cliffrose Way (
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/170048276):
>> https://fortcollins.craigslist.org/gms/4991940913.html
>>
>> Here is the approximate area on the default OSM map:
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/40.51930/-104.85951
>>
>> I looked at the data and all of the streets in question seem to be tagged
>> "oneway=no". Admittedly this tag is rather superfluous in these cases - or
>> at least I believe it is, I am not the one that added it, but it shouldn't
>> be interpreted as indicating a one way street.
>>
>> I could remove this tag, but I feel this would be tagging for the
>> renderer (actually someone else's renderer), and there may be legitimate
>> cases for using "oneway=no" on a way representing a street somewhere else.
>>
>> Why care? I would imagine to the majority of the users make no
>> distinction between OpenStreetMap and Craigslist's rendering of
>> OpenStreetMap, if the map is wrong, to them that simply means that
>> OpenStreetMap is wrong.
>>
>>
>>
> I'd remove it.
> Redundant information - data base bloat. Like vehicle=yes on a motorway ...
>
> Perhaps these could be candidates for a mechanical clean up?
>
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