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[Germany] Reviewing osmlint-osmium and osmlint data issues

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
15/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
data

Research direction

Start with the Germany output archive and the category ZIP files linked in the issue, then inspect the examples using iD or JOSM and the referenced OSM tools. Done would mean reviewing applicable detections and resolving valid issues in OSM, but the issue does not define a bounded newcomer-sized subset.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

Intro

Our team extracted data from OSM for Germany, and checked it via osmlint-osmium and osmlint. We found 25k+ issues to review and resolve. The output of all the linters can be found here.
Link to the OSM wiki page.

We are planning to review all the detections and help resolve the issues on existing data in OSM. We welcome help in fixing these issue -- ping us with any updates.

Timeframe

We are going to start addressing issues identified by the linters on October 12. Based on past experience, we expect about 1500 of the 25 473 issues detected in Germany to be resolved.

Tools

During our work we are going to use standard OSM tools for editing: iD and JOSM editors; Bing, Maxar, Esri satellites data; and Mapillary street level images and other open sources that are compliant with OSM.

Contact person

If you have a question about a specific edit, please comment in the changeset, message the mapper who did it, or email Natallia ([email protected]) as the manager of the project.

Used hashtag

#mbx_germany_roads is the unique hashtag for the changeset comments.

Linter output
issue Germany Files
crossinghighways 8678 crossinghighways.zip
crossinghighwaysbridges 19 crossinghighwaysbridges.zip
crossinghighwaysbuildings 11691 crossinghighwaysbuildings.zip
impossibleangle 532 impossibleangle.zip
impossibleoneways 1899 impossibleoneways.zip
islandshighways 1692 islandshighways.zip
mixedlayer 89 mixedlayer.zip
tr-excessiverolestr 162 tr-excessiverolestr.zip
tr-invalidroletr 64 tr-invalidroletr.zip
tr-missingroletr 433 tr-missingroletr.zip
tr-missingtyperestrictiontr 214 tr-missingtyperestrictiontr.zip
Here are some examples:

Impossible oneways is one of the 11 categories of linters:

-here we see two oneways from different direction are meeting in one point

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There are problems with the connection of roads near polygons, especially parking lots. Parking lots in Germany are often mapped by polygons without lines (roads) inside the polygon and since there are no lines inside the polygon, routing will not work. Such example you can find here

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Also found unconnected service roads. To be routable, they should be connected into the road network. You can find example here

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More examples:
Unconnected roads 1.

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Unconnected roads 2.

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Your comments and questions are welcome here

@legain @Andygol @abrohood @shvrm

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Getting set up

First steps

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  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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