Road Network for Fastest Growing US Cities

[jharpster]

Task Description

As Conroe City, TX has a growth rate between 2015 and 2016 of 7.8% (11 times the national average), it merits looking into this and updating the road network using a combination of available imagery assets, and the 2017 TIGER dataset accessible in OSM. In looking to add new roads, we will review the following characteristics of the data - alignment correction, directionality, road classification, setting surface tags to paved or unpaved, and adding turn restrictions where possible. We will also clean up an existing suspicious Tiger data following the guidelines.

Mapping Guidelines

The Team will use the JOSM tool, along with any of the resources listed below to identify and add missing roads and clean up Tiger roads (we are only updating the road network at this time (no buildings, etc), additionally we will only be adding roads that lead to 3+ residences). We will be adding/updating (when possible) road: geometry, names, directionality and one-ways, turn restrictions, road class, surface type (we will only be adding paved or unpaved), speed limit, traffic signals. The team will follow OSM guidelines for adding and tagging each.

Area of Focus

We are going to focus our efforts on the top 15 fastest growing cities in the US based on the US Census with emphasis on the outer edges of the city where new construction is more likely and thus new roads to add and repair.

Tools

We will be using JOSM to do the adding and editing of roads.
We will be creating our own projects out in the open on the public US Task Manager. You can see our projects here: https://tasks.openstreetmap.us/contribute?difficulty=ALL&organisation=Microsoft

Sources

• DigitalGlobe Standard/Premium
• Bing imagery
• Mapbox imagery
• ESRI imagery
• Mapillary
• OpenStreetCam
• Tiger 2017 road data
• Telenav's MissingRoads plugin and ImproveOSM
  - OSM GPS traces
• Strava heat map (only good for verification of a road, not enough resolution to add geometry)

Changeset Comments

The team will be adding changeset comments that follow OSM changeset guidelines.

Error Detection

We will use the validator in the JOSM tool to look for errors.

Additional Info

For any questions, comments, concerns, feel free to email the team at openmaps(at)Microsoft.com