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<title>Блогчетање 25 Jun 2008</title>
<link>https://danilo.segan.org/blog</link>
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  <title>More OpenStreetMap issues</title>
  <link>https://danilo.segan.org/blog/openstreetmap/osm-intersections</link>
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<p>I managed to upload data to OSM servers using <a href="http://josm.openstreetmap.de">JOSM</a>—though I had to <a href="http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/801">patch</a> it for Cyrillic usernames (well, any non-Latin-1 characters). Thanks to Bruce Cowan for <a href="http://danilo.segan.org/blog/openstreetmap/starting-with-openstreetmap#1212873946.86">pointing me</a> in the right direction earlier when it came to uploading existing OSM files.</p>


<h3>Intersections or overlapping?</h3>

<p>Thus, I was able to map most of Zemun's Donji Grad (and a few nearby streets of Novi Beograd), but with a few problems I can't seem to be able to solve.</p>

<center><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=44.84141&lon=20.41255&zoom=15&layers=B00FT"><img src="http://danilo.segan.org/slike/osm/osm-zemun.jpg" /></a></center>

<p>The biggest issue I am running into is joining ways—some of them seem to not look like intersections, yet they share a node. At least when rendered with mapnik—osmarender looks fine.</p>

<center><img src="http://danilo.segan.org/slike/osm/osm-zemun-osmarender.jpg" /><br /><em>Osmarender looks better: or at least doesn't show the same defects?</em></center>

<p>I'd really like to resolve this, because I want these streets to be actually connected.  I've tried inserting 'junctions', but that didn't help. Any suggestions?</p>


<h3>Alternative and localised naming</h3>

<p>Other thing I wonder about is about alternative names, and localised names (for streets and objects). I am making use of <code>old_name</code>, <code>name:en</code> and <code>name:sr</code> tags, but I couldn't find any official policy on naming.</p>

<p>I have so far defaulted to using Serbian Cyrillic for street names, but will soon switch them to Latin script, and put Serbian as <code>name:sr</code> tags.  I suspect search on <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org">OpenStreetMap</a> will return both, but will need to wait for confirmation for a few days. I am also still hoping to render Cyrillic names, though, so I may need to set up a separate tile generator on my own server. Or not?</p>

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