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Mapping cycleways in Melbourne

Funny you should say this, I’m literally looking at Strava right now. I use Strava a lot for work, so totally on top of how powerful that dataset is… Haven’t used it much in this particular project yet, but I can see how it might benefit the process! Thanks!

Mapping cycleways in Melbourne

Ah visualisation and postgis are both BIG topics. Probably not something that will be easy to elaborate on in this comments section. I highly recommend playing around with some geospatial tools like QGIS, as it’ll expand your world massively if you work a lot in this space.

With regards to Vespucci, I typically use it to add, update and realign nodes and ways, as well as change tags. It offers a lot more flexibility than StreetComplete EE, although I have used SCEE a few times for some simple tag changes.

Plenty of situations where I’ve been unsure or struggle to appropriately tag a way as the current schema is quite limited. Some issues include: *bike lanes on which car parking is allowed *unmaintained or faded lanes/marking *sparse or otherwise irregular road markings

I have been communicating with users on the #oceania Discord - but it seems like there’s not necessarily a lot of consensus on how to deal with such issues

In terms of explicit site visits, I’ve probably spent a good week or more of time assessing different areas. I do this primarily when my other sources are not good enough for me to understand what’s happening on the ground in those particular locations.

Mapping cycleways in Melbourne

Thanks for the info and suggestions ConsEbt. I’ve added a little more detail in this diary entry about my process, and have posted this also to the #openstreetmap Slack channel. Happy to discuss further :)