Changeset: 54996297
Latest update for a community work i performed in December 2017
Closed by GSDA1
Tags
created_by | JOSM/1.5 (13252 en_GB) |
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review_requested | yes |
source | survey |
Discussion
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Comment from Johnwhelan
You appear to have imported highways over existing highways.
It appears to be a mess.
Any comments?
Thanks John
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Comment from edvac
Hi, GSDA1:
I am not sure that you have imported this set of 328 roads. Maybe you have edited them with a GIS software like ArcGIS or QGIS, and then decided to add them to OpenStreetMap.
But even in this case, you have done a mess in the area, because you have added them where many of the roads were already mapped.
I guess the best option is to revert the changes to solve the mess, and then you could, with help of others maybe, add and integrate all the roads/segments that weren't present in OSM before you added them.
In case it is an import (a dataset not created by you), you can't do that, except following the import guidelines: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines -
Comment from GSDA1
Goodday all. Thank you for your comments and observations. I didn't take care to notice that the area had been previously mapped before uploading them. However, i will take adequate and urgent steps to clean the data i uploaded especially those areas that have duplicates. I wished i knew how to undo the changes in bulk so i can only import the data that isn't there. The project was done last year and supervised by myself for the community in concern.
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Comment from edvac
Hi, GSDA1:
First, I hope all people involved are ok with you adding these data to OSM... Otherwise, it would be technically an import, and we do need the permission of the data creators before adding the data to OSM.
Please, bear in mind for the next time that, in OSM, there are usually data already there, so you need to manually conflate new data instead of just uploading it.
Also, the segments you have added contain several tags that shouldn't be there, like:
OBJECTID
SHAPE_Leng
STATUS
TYPEYou need to delete them all or, if they have some interesting info, translate them to existing OSM tags. For example, some roads have a tag NAME, that would translate into name, and the value of name should be in non-capital letters too, like name=1st Utagban Road
Finally, and very important, you should keep all segments that were there before you uploaded, so we keep the oldest ones, and delete your duplicates.
Cheers!
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Comment from GSDA1
Thank you Edvac. The work was done voluntarily by myself and the community. The aim was to upload it online and i thought OSM was the best place to do so.
Maybe next time i have a batch to upload, i may have to send it someplace first like you or some other Admin so that i don't repeat this mess again. I am frantically trying to revert the changes but my JOSM can't even connect via remote control even though i am online.
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