On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Niklas Laxström <niklas.laxstrom@gmail.com> wrote:
On 16 August 2011 04:42, aude <aude.wiki@gmail.com> wrote:
> The map (http://osm.org/go/xtTsF0inF-) is drastically improved, with
> excellent follow-up by the mappers to get the information entered into the
> map.

Excellent. I really missed good maps while traveling in Israel.
Especially bus routes on real map would have been handy.

Bus routes would be awesome and think/hope that we'll have them in OSM for DC by next summer, and in some useful formats for attendees.
 

Is it just me or why aren't sidewalks on the map?

We usually work in stages:

1) add the basics, like roads
2) then shops, buildings, etc.
3) further details like sidewalks
4) even more details like, sidewalk curb cuts and tactile paving, for accessibility / pedestrian routing
5) when the map is mostly complete (e.g. Germany), add details like individual trees :)

Haifa is somewhere between stage 1-2; Washington DC is at stage 2-3

Also, in cities, sidewalks are often assumed to be there, sometimes tagged as an attribute of the road (sidewalk=left/right/both) instead of as separate ways.


> We've also uncovered a bunch of RTL bugs in OSM, and could use help to
> address them.

In the website or the map renderers or in the editors?

All of above... though we've fixed the most critical website bugs.  As I have time, I can try to document them better in one place.

Cheers,
Katie

 
 -Niklas

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