Quite Frankly's Diary Comments
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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! |
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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. |
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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 :) |