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My first few weeks of OSM ...

Posted by dotsha on 13 October 2008 in English.

Things I've dabled in the last week or two:

- Did Meru Heights and Taman Meru in Ipoh, Perak. These are from tracks I've contributed to Malsingmaps earlier.

- Slowly starting on the ring roads around Ipoh, Perak.

- Tracked the NS highway from KL - Ipoh - Butterworth. My KL-Ipoh tracks are of much better quality as I was patient enough to drive slowly on the slower lanes and got good separation between the dual-carriageways. When it came time to drive to Butterworth though, it was a national holiday and the really slow drivers all came out ...

- went a bit overboard with SS1, PJ. Interestingly, can't seem to find where Jalan SS1/42 is. There's SS1/41 ... and SS1/43 ... but no idea where SS1/42 is.

- Did Seksyen 51A, PJ ... was visiting the area on quite a few days as my car was in the workshop there. The older road signs here are labelled "Jalan 22x", whereas the newer signs are labeled "Jalan 51A/22x". Am going to standardize on the newer format.

- Started on SS2, PJ though I wish i'd started on SS3 first ... looks smaller.

- A few main roads in Seksyen 14, PJ.

- Desa Sri Hartamas, where my office address is.

- Major roads cutting across Damansara Heights.

- Pusat Bandar Damansara.

- SPRINT highway. Having fun with the interchange of damansara-link and kerinchi-link.

- Went to the market at Taman Tun Dr Ismail.

I've mostly focused on the major roads, I may zoom into the smaller residential roads later, or hopefully someone else will fill these in.

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Discussion

Comment from dotsha on 13 October 2008 at 22:06

While on the touching on SPRINT highway:

Do the "pioneer" roads that were expanded into the highway still "exist"? For example, the road in front of Wisma Damansara, as I recall it used to be Jalan Semantan. This road was absorbed into the Damansara-Link highway of SPRINT. There aren't any signs that indicate it is Jalan Semantan anymore. So I believe it should be labelled as Damansara Link and categorized as a motorway in OSM.

Fine and sensible, until you try and figure out what is the proper address of Wisma Damansara and how are you likely to find it in an OSM search...

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