National Highway Mapping

Alok sharma · 2012-08-12 20:34:36

Dear Moderator,

I feel we should start a new thread of NH mapping in India....!!

Alok sharma · 2012-08-12 20:36:44

I have done and validated the mapping for NH79 till Indore and NH 3 from Indore to Agra....!! had done many NH in parts,,,,can check back and update on the latest state...!!

marek kleciak · 2012-08-23 00:21:29

Please ask user SunCobalt, what´s about his validation Tool for national roads from Poland.

http://suncobalt.dyndns.org:82/polska.php

It is wery helpful for checking of gaps and irregularities.
Maybe he can do somthing similar for national ways in India.

Last edited by marek kleciak (2012-08-23 00:31:42)

mailsandeepdagar · 2012-08-23 17:34:18

Hi Alok,

Well thread you have already started

Good to see you are actively involved in it. May be we can list down all the NH from India and track them in this thread. Do you have any other idea please do share?

One more point with NH mapping I was wondering if we could do something in maps which could shows where the conditions of roads is really bad.

Happy Mapping!!

Bernhard Hiller · 2012-08-23 19:05:00

mailsandeepdagar wrote:

...could do something in maps which could shows where the conditions of roads is really bad.

The key to look for is called "smoothness", see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:smoothness
It is hardly used, because in the highly developed countries of Western Europe it does not add a lot of value. But with bad roads, it helps. Mappers in Romania use it for their "motorbike map", see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Moto … of_Romania and http://www.openmap.ro/moto/?zoom=9&lat= … s=BTFFFFTF

mailsandeepdagar · 2012-08-23 22:01:28

Dear Mr. Hiller,

Thanks for the key. This can be very useful for Indian roads. Many roads outside big cities are in very bad shape.

Sutripta · 2012-08-25 17:26:36

Bernhard Hiller wrote:

The key to look for is called "smoothness", see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:smoothness

Shouldn't an accurate road speed index be sufficient?

Regards
Sutripta

Alok sharma · 2012-08-29 18:50:42

Hi Sandeep,
We can add the detail of the bad road stretch, but i don't feel it will help a lot as the roads get bad in rains and get repaired later. And if we take a decision on the basis of a good or bad road status information that was updated 6 months back,,,,,then you know how big the gamble we will be taking..:)

Alternatively, i feel we can start a new thread "Latest Road Status in India",,,where users can update the status of road they recently traveled.....this way, we might even get some extensive travelers and they might help us make our road network more accurate..:)...What say??

Alok sharma · 2012-08-29 18:55:37

Another Question on the nomenclature that we are following while putting "ref" for a NH/SH/MDR...!!
eg: for National Highway 1,,should we put NH1 or NH 1 or NH-1..??

Heinz_V · 2012-08-29 21:21:09

Always use NH8, SH10, MDR20 , no blanks or other seperators.

Heinz_V · 2012-08-29 21:31:55

Alok sharma said : "Alternatively, i feel we can start a new thread "Latest Road Status in India",,,where users can update the status of road they recently traveled.....this way, we might even get some extensive travelers and they might help us make our road network more accurate..:)...What say??"

Travellers, who are OSM-mappers, can use a lot of tags like surface, smoothness width,lanes.... to describe tha staus of a highway...

I think that somebody, who doesn't map in OSM would not use this forum to post his observations.

Everybody can use openstreetbugs to report things like road status : http://openstreetbugs.schokokeks.org/

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