I am trying to connect with someone who would be able to help the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities contribute speed limit data in mass. We are noticing that the speed limits shown on State of Alaska roads are severely in need of updating. While this could be done one road segment at a time, we would prefer to offer Open Street Maps a GIS layer to update them all at once. If we can get this initial data update completed, the manual process should be a reasonable task going forward.
Any assistance in finding a path forward would be appreciated.
Is there anybody interested in pursuing this offer? If so, please let us know & we’ll pass you their contact details.
Please note that this will still be an import, so all the normal import rules will apply.
My username is listed as “Hans Thompson” and I’ve been an active mapper since around the start of COVID and in Alaska in particular. I have not focused on roads so much but I do have what I think is a good understanding of OSM and PostGIS but I haven’t made an import beside maybe one or two to test from QGIS. I would like to take this on but it would not be routine editing for me. If the DWG would review my current post history and make a recommendation to pass on the contract information or not, I would be willing to work with DOT on this.
Are you thinking of doing the conflation manually? I wonder if OSM Merge could be adapted for helping with the conflation process. Maybe @rsavoye has ideas.
Probably worth asking DOT&PF for the layer in any case.
It might be possible to do manually. I need tp see what they are working with first. A good friend at AKDOT+PF actually got me interested in GIS initially.
There are very long highways but there aren’t that many. Depends on whether it’s other state roads or not I think.
Sorry, I don’t see where the PM section is of this website and I don’t have any new messages at osm.org. I’m not sure where the message is. Can you send it to me at osm.org?