The map I was using was one I generated myself using OSM data. The router was on the ridewithgps route planner.

The city does its own high resolution aerial imagery every 2 years with the most recent being last year. They take the pictures in the spring before the leaves open which makes it easier to see stuff on the ground.

https://opengis.regina.ca/basicviewer/viewer.html?basemap=2020

You can change years using the Basemap Select button in the lower right going back to 2009 and also 1951. On the left there is a button called Pictometry lets you see images taken diagonally from north east south and west (using the compass). The diagonal views are useful for things on the ground that you can’t quite make out in the overhead. The pictometry viewer can be a bit clunky but might be useful for surveying fine details.

The neat thing about using the JOSM editor is that you can use the the high resolution imagery as a background layer for editing. In the imagery preferences you need to create a new WMS entry and add this url to the get capabilities box. https://opengis.regina.ca/arcgis/services/Imagery/Airphoto_Regina_2024_7_5cm/ImageServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS

If you want to map sidewalk conditions I guess it makes sense to have the sidewalks mapped separately. Also where there is a grass strip between the sidewalk and curb (in a few areas it is set back quite a ways). In that case sometimes pathways connect to the sidewalk first and the ramp to the road might be offset by 10 feet from the path. Since roadway width varies considerably the sidewalk can be very far from the road center line. There are also a few spots where the sidewalks diverge from the road.

The tags should be removed from the road once the sidewalks are mapped separately. It is very easy to do with the josm desktop editor as you can set a filter to show only roads and quickly select many to update at once.

The extra nodes can make keeping everything in alignment tricky when straightening roads.

When a user in The Creeks first started doing that I caused an issue with my bike gps map, but I was able to filter them out. Back then routing software I was using kept routing onto the sidewalk for cycling which was annoying, but they fixed that.

Would definitely like to see driveways to individual residences tagged differently. Some local micro mapping added hundreds of short ways approximately 15 meters in length.

On maps like Strava uses it looks absolutely ridiculous. For the map on my cycling GPS I’ve had to add extra filtering in my mkgmap style sheet to filter out any way tagged as a driveway below a certain length.

Yes they meander around the trees on the lawns in a few parks.

I haven’t found anything, they have an open data portal but there isn’t a lot there http://opendata-saskatoon.cloudapp.net/

I found a several local very old misnamed streets using http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/

A few years ago I did an address import which had the official street names. Recently when I decided to tackle Osmose errors (with my name on them) there were many for (“addr:street” not matching a street name around).

I often use Bing when scrolling around because it loads faster. But the Maxar imagery for my area is 3 years newer, and often sharper. For a really close look I’m lucky enough to have super high resolution aerial photography taken in the spring before the leaves open, so I can actually see what is beneath the canopy. Though that last option is the slowest because of the city’s webserver.

I got a good shortcut down for dealing with multiple nodes in the exact same spot in need of merging. First I was highlighting then pressing ‘m’. Then I noticed with them in the exact same spot you can just click one and press ‘m’, without needing to have both in the selected items window.

To really speed things up I’m taking advantage of the error validation in JOSM. If you merger some nodes in a way (seem to need at least 3) then press the upload button it will flag the errors. Expand the duplicate node errors in the validation panel and click the first one. Put one finger on the enter key and another the ‘m’ then toggle back and forth as fast as you can. You can hammer through a dozen nodes in a second or two and easier on the wrists. It only works for the ways where you merged the nodes, so the process may needed to be repeated multiple times for a given downloaded area.

Here’s an image I made of all 1400+ of my bike rides as of last December. I made this one in QGIS so I was able to crank up the output DPI and narrow the line thickness to create a very detailed image. I ride my bike a lot so I have 74,740 km of gps traces going back to the end of 2012. A great way to get the roads down before the satellite imagery catches up.

All Rides High Resolution

The reverter plugin was the first thing I tried but it repeatedly gave me errors when trying to download the changeset, refusing to download anything at all.

One of my regular KeepRight checks a couple days ago revealed some stragglers which prompted me to write the diary entry.

I tried slide a few times, but I primarily use JOSM to edit. For some mountain bike trails I did use the Strava heatmap layer in JOSM to add trails that were obscured by trees.

I’d definitely like to try doing some stuff with Mapillary. One of the biggest areas of work left locally is adding POIs for businesses. Making image sequences of the main commercial areas would make that task easier.

Top 50! If I had taken the time to read the wiki more I would have created a separate import account for the canvec imports I was doing. I spent a lot of time completing the rural road network in southern Saskatchewan. But further north, less roads and more vegetation, which is when the node count started to explode. After my account got locked for 24 hours I reevaluated whether it was beneficial to upload massive amounts of data for the sparsely populated north. I’m back to doing small edits in my local are using gps traces collected while cycling.

Thanks. Last year over the course of 73 bike rides totaling about 4000 km I covered every road and alley in my city. I thought it would be neat if I could create video drawing the path I took.

Are the RUNNER parameters used generate a sequential series of images for a track? I can’t quite figure out how to use them.