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Improvements roads in Thailand & Vietnam
Introduction
Our team is launching a mapping initiative to enhance the quality of road data in Thailand and Vietnam. Our goals include:
- Correcting and improving road names for accuracy.
- Fixing geometry issues.
- Creating new roads based on osm imagery
Types of Activity
We focus on the following features:
- Adding missing roads
- Changing road connectivity/geometry
- Adding and improving street names
- Improving other objects affecting road geometry
Workflow
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Maproulette: We have some database of features that potentially have problems (dragged node, spam name & etc.), we plan to upload these features to Maproulette and fix them there.
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Visual Assessment: We will visually inspect the road data coverage, adding any missing roads, based on OSM imagery.
Geographical scope
Thailand and Vietnam
How to find our edits
All edits made by our team in this project have the hashtag #mapbox_roads
Editing Team
All members of the team went through the onboarding process before starting editing on OpenStreetMap and are familiar with the principles of editing. New editors are guided to OSM training resources like the OSM Wiki and iD editor's Help panel. All team members can be found here: link
Tools
Team will use OSM ID and Rapid
Sources
- OSM imagery
- street-level sources such as Mapilary or Bing Streetside
- Tiger Roads
- KartaView
- Mapbox Imagery
- Source with ODbL license
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Thailand https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vietnam
Timeframe
February - March
Contact
We welcome feedback from local mappers as local knowledge always prevails. If you have any questions about a specific edit done by the Mapbox team or want to suggest some improvements in the editing process you can contact [email protected] or post a comment in a changeset.
More information about team : Wiki page
Announcements in community: Thailand Vietnam
Adding and improving street names
Note that alley names in large Vietnamese cities are different than in most countries. For example, a typical alley name in Ho Chi Minh City looks like “Hẻm 1716/46/24 Huỳnh Tấn Phát”. The sign only says “Hẻm 1716/46/24”, but the full name is considered important for addressing and navigation.
Announcements in community
There’s a Facebook group for the Vietnamese community.
