I would like to notify you about a new MapRoulette challenge addressing inconsistent road classifications within OpenStreetMap (OSM) data. This is crucial for maintaining the accuracy and usability of the map for all users. Inconsistent classifications can create problems with visualization, routing, and data analysis. Your local knowledge, technical expertise, and understanding of Serbian road specifications are essential to the success of this effort.
Technical Perspective: Inconsistent road classifications can cause problems with visualization and routing, and also compromise the integrity of the OSM data model, leading to errors in data processing and analysis. By ensuring proper classification, we contribute to a more robust and reliable dataset.
Practical Perspective: Consistent road classifications are essential for creating accurate and efficient routing algorithms. This ensures that navigation systems can generate optimal routes, avoiding unnecessary detours or misdirection onto unsuitable roads.
Real-World Perspective: Accurate road classifications directly impact various real-world applications. Consistent road classifications help emergency services find the quickest and most appropriate routes, improve logistics and delivery services, and enhance the overall mapping experience for everyone.
TomTom has identified areas where high-class roads connect to unusually low-class roads. Most tasks involve short segments of lower-class roads surrounded by higher-class roads.
Important:
Some tasks may be false positives. If so, please mark them as “Not an Issue.”
This task requires local knowledge and understanding of Serbian road specifications.
Please reach out with any comments, feedback, or questions about this MapRoulette challenge.
I’ve analysed several situations, and reverted some relatively recent breaking changes (the worst being completely broken road Mošorin-Vilovo by a newbie), but not through the MapRoulette UI. Will the task be refreshed soon, so as to take my fixes into account?
There are some false positives (tertiary roads ending in a remote village, as it should), but I urge the community to take the challenge, since it reveals some rather serious data issues.
thank you for your message @Duja : very much appreciate your response and indeed there might be some critical cases in Serbia related to road classification
However, I cannot appreciate your response in return. I would be better to answer nothing at all (and I had a specific question ), than to offer a generic, unusable utterance that looks AI-generated.
Hello @Duja : probably ended with a wrong step but that can be fixed I hope, and no, I do not use AI generated answers as this is a pure human-to-human engagement which is my primary role, yet still appreciate your response.
let me answer your question as I assumed that is more a statement but my assumption was wrong, for your question, the tasks once editing and saved it should be flagged by the editor in the UI. is that the answer you are looking for or my understanding to the question was not correct?
Basically, I asked whether the tasks will disappear (for example, a day later) if I fix the issue directly in iD or JOSM, not using the MapRoulette interface. In other words, whether the tasks were generated using a one-time snapshot, or the generator runs periodically (like e.g. OSM Inspector).
However, yesterday I engaged with MapRoulette and resolved two dozen tasks, so I got the answer: it’s a one-time snapshot, so I had to click “Already Fixed” or “I Fixed It” in MR for those edits. If they were encountered by someone else, it would probably slightly confuse them, since they would see a pin where no apparent problem exists. But I understand it’s much easier to manage the process if it starts with a one-time snapshot, than to remove solved and generate new tasks every day.
Your question highlights the core mechanism of how we generate these leads: using a one-time data snapshot. If issues have been resolved outside of MapRoulette since that snapshot was taken, the “Already Fixed” status should be used within MapRoulette. To illustrate, if we created leads yesterday and someone corrected the issue today outside of MapRoulette and the editor did not indicted/flag it there, MapRoulette wouldn’t automatically recognize the fix. Therefore, the user should manually mark the task as “Already Fixed” in MapRoulette.