I'm involved with a pokemon map that lifts its locations directly from OSM, but suburbs are coming through incorrect for the most part. It can't tell the difference between Melb, cbd, docklands, calton, east melb, etc. Why would this be happening in such densely mapped areas, and what would be the simplest fix?
Hello! That's an interesting question. Do you have any screenshots of an example? It sounds to me like it's an issue with the map rendering Openstreetmap data rather than the map itself, but I can check to see. In OSM, suburbs and other administrative boundaries are tagged as relations. These are used to include things in the data that do not physically exist 'on the ground' (as opposed to, say, a fence). Here's Footscray as an example: www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2399653#map=15/-37.8008/144.8979
@@philipmallis thanks for the reply. I believe the available fields on the template we use can select from {{flag}} {{streetnumber}} {{streetname}} {{city}} {{state}} {{zipcode}} {{country}} No {{suburb}} The fact that it's administrative explains why I couldn't find the options when I played with OSM
@@danikanskywalker2119 Ah yep that would make sense. Each administrative boundary relation has a level, which changes depending on the country. So it would be difficult to come up with any worldwide standard that would work in every single place. This table has all the current OSM standards which may help wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative#admin_level.3D.2A_Country_specific_values
@@philipmallis This is all such interesting information. Looking at the recommendation on best mapping a place=suburb, it suggests they're often mapped with nodes. If this is how Australian suburbs are mapped, then that could also create some of the issues we're seeing. Even if I don't get to the bottom of my problem, I'm definitely learning something
@@danikanskywalker2119 Yep that's right! Each suburb also has a node tagged as place=town (used to be place=suburb but this has fallen out of use) but this won't give you the boundaries - e.g. www.openstreetmap.org/node/2142287856#map=15/-37.8010/144.8979. So if you don't need any boundary information, then the point/node will serve your purposes just fine.
Very informative. Good job!
Thank you ! Glad it was helpful :)
Well done Phillip. enjoyed
How possible is a growth corridor to Warburton or Healesville?
I'm involved with a pokemon map that lifts its locations directly from OSM, but suburbs are coming through incorrect for the most part. It can't tell the difference between Melb, cbd, docklands, calton, east melb, etc. Why would this be happening in such densely mapped areas, and what would be the simplest fix?
Hello! That's an interesting question. Do you have any screenshots of an example? It sounds to me like it's an issue with the map rendering Openstreetmap data rather than the map itself, but I can check to see.
In OSM, suburbs and other administrative boundaries are tagged as relations. These are used to include things in the data that do not physically exist 'on the ground' (as opposed to, say, a fence). Here's Footscray as an example: www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2399653#map=15/-37.8008/144.8979
@@philipmallis thanks for the reply. I believe the available fields on the template we use can select from {{flag}} {{streetnumber}} {{streetname}} {{city}} {{state}} {{zipcode}} {{country}}
No {{suburb}}
The fact that it's administrative explains why I couldn't find the options when I played with OSM
@@danikanskywalker2119 Ah yep that would make sense. Each administrative boundary relation has a level, which changes depending on the country. So it would be difficult to come up with any worldwide standard that would work in every single place. This table has all the current OSM standards which may help wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative#admin_level.3D.2A_Country_specific_values
@@philipmallis This is all such interesting information. Looking at the recommendation on best mapping a place=suburb, it suggests they're often mapped with nodes.
If this is how Australian suburbs are mapped, then that could also create some of the issues we're seeing.
Even if I don't get to the bottom of my problem, I'm definitely learning something
@@danikanskywalker2119 Yep that's right! Each suburb also has a node tagged as place=town (used to be place=suburb but this has fallen out of use) but this won't give you the boundaries - e.g. www.openstreetmap.org/node/2142287856#map=15/-37.8010/144.8979. So if you don't need any boundary information, then the point/node will serve your purposes just fine.
Hello why this innuendo
How so?
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