South Korea | Data Improvements
Project description
Goal
Improving the map quality in South Korea (officially the Republic of Korea) by sharing tasks that can help fix data errors and/or add certain kinds of features.
How to participate
Anyone is welcome to contribute to this project by participating in our MapRoulette challenges. Here is the extended documentation for using MR. Note that sometimes additional instructions are provided within the challenges. We also strongly encourage you to follow good practices, editing standards, and the South Korea mapping guide.
Here is the current set of challenges.
Challenges
Active Challenges
Fix Incorrect Highway Junctions
Identify and fix if needed, incorrect or imprecisely located junctions.
Fix Intersecting Buildings
Identify and fix, if needed, situations where a building intersects with another building at the same layer.
Fix Building & Highway Intersections
Identify and fix, if needed, cases where a way with tag highway* intersects with a building.
Fix Incorrect Junctions on Roundabouts
Identify and fix cases where two or more highways are connected to the same node on a roundabout.
Fix Spiky Buildings
Examine and fix the set of potentially erroneous buildings that we’ve identified. Visit the locations on the map and assess whether the building shapes seem inaccurate.
Missing feature and tag challenges
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Add missing buildings in the urban area of Busan, South Korea.
South Korea - Mapping Missing Buildings in Busan -
Add missing highways in South Korea. Leads generated by spatial comparison of TomTom's in-house road centerlines with the OSM road network and identified missing way locations. South Korea - Add Highways
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Add highways in South Korea. Leads generated by spatial comparison of TomTom's in-house road centerlines with the OSM road network and identified missing highway locations. 대한민국 – 고속도로 추가하기 | South Korea - Add highways
Inactive Challenges
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Fix Inconsistent Highway Intersections
Identify and fix cases where highways intersect without a common node.
Connect Isolated Highways
These are tasks comprising of situations when a way with tag highway=* is not connected to the rest of the road network. Analyze and, if needed, connect the way to another way with tag highway=*.
Edits based on Map Feedback
We will make improvements to OSM based on user feedback submitted for the TomTom map after comparing and ensuring that it is also valid for OSM.
Here is a list of the types of edits that could be made, provided they do not conflict with others’ edits and a local source is available:
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Highways
- Adding or correcting highways
- Adding or correcting link roads
- Adding or adjusting bridges, tunnels, layers, or relations
- Adding or updating lanes and related properties
- Adding or updating traffic signs
- Adding or updating access barriers
- Adding or updating turn restrictions
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Addresses
- Adding or correcting addresses
- Updating the position of address nodes, usually when an object has multiple addresses
- Adding or correcting names of ways
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POIs (Points of Interest)
- Adding POIs
- Correcting POI locations
- Adding or correcting POI information
- Resolving POI-land use discrepancies
- Handling POI closures
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Land use
- Adding land use
- Modifying existing land use extent
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Buildings
- Adding buildings
- Updating building type
- Adjusting building shape
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Water
- Adding or realigning rivers, streams, and lakes.
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Railways
- Adding railway tracks
- Realigning railways tracks
- Adding or adjusting railway infrastructure tags such as bridges, tunnels, level crossings
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Ferry Lines
- Adding ferry Lines
- Realigning ferry lines
- Adding ferry terminals
Geographical scope
Data improvements will be made across the whole country.
Announcements
- Notified about the Fix Incorrect Highway Junctions challenge and map feedback activity on 15-Dec-2023 in the Korean peninsula region contributors' community forum
- Notified about the Fix Intersecting Buildings challenge on 13-Sep-2023 in the Korean peninsula region contributors' community forum
- Notified about the Fix Inconsistent Highway Intersections challenge on 28-Jul-2023 in the Korean peninsula region contributors' community forum
- Notified about the Fix Building & Highway Intersections challenge on 26-Jun-2023 in the Korean peninsula region contributors' community forum
- Notified about the Isolated Highways challenge on 30-May-2023 in the Korean peninsula region contributors' community forum
- Notified about the Missing Building TM Project 5-March-2024 in the Korean peninsula region contributors' community forum
- Notified about the refill in South Korea - Fix Inconsistent Highway Intersections on 22-March-2024 in the Korean peninsula region contributors' community forum
- Notified about a challenge in South Korea - Fix Incorrect Junctions on Roundabouts and Fix Spiky Buildings on 2-May-2024 in the Korean Telegram group
- Notified about a challenge in South Korea - Add Highways on 30-July-2024 in the Korean Telegram group
- Notified about a challenge in South Korea - Add Highways on 4-November-2024 in the Korean Telegram group and Korean peninsula region contributors' community forum
- Notified about a challenge in South Korea - Fix Incorrect Highway Junctions on 20-March-2025 in the Korean Telegram group
- Notified about a challenge refill in South Korea - Add Highways on 27th Oct-2025 in the Korean Telegram group
TomTom organised editing
We will follow the Organised Editing Guidelines for this project. TomTom will not make any edits until two weeks after the project announcement. Here is our Organised Editing page, including a list of our editors.
How to find TomTom's edits
All edits made by our team have the hashtag #tt or #tomtom.
Sources for editing
- Maxar
- Esri
- Bing
How to reach out
If you have remarks about a specific edit of ours, please drop a comment in the changeset, and we will do our best to respond thoughtfully. Or, you can also:
- send a message to the project lead Syed
- join the conversation in the Korea community forum
- email [email protected] for general questions about TomTom's activities.