OpenStreetMap
So I am working in Puebla correcting features, and adding things, and i have noticed in some areas it is quite a mess. A lot of the mapping done in Puebla seems to have been done by mappers that did not have a full understanding of what they were doing. I have seen one way streets laid over top of one another in order to create a two way road, as well as more recently, someone who has drawn a ton of ways for the exclusive purpose of mapping bus routes.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/171830679#map=19/19.04544/-98.19009&layers=D
The ways are featureless except that they have been included in a route relation. They crisscross Puebla independent of any other features, and can get very jumbled in some areas.
The User who made them has gone inactive,
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/lebannen
My question is should I go ahead and start deleting all these miscellaneous bus routes? I estimate there to be about 10-20 of them and it would certainly clean up the map here. My impression is that the way this user mapped the bus routes is completely wrong and that right now they are just extraneous data.
Discussion
Comment from Warin61 on 26 September 2015 at 04:59
If you simply delete the routes then you will loose the information of where the bus routes are. Any reason to suspect that the routes themselves are wrong?
If your using JOSM you might be able to move/copy the routes to another layer thus you can have the information and correctly enter the data.
Comment from Endres Pelka on 26 September 2015 at 10:00
The “seagull mapper” did his edits three years ago, these routes might be totally outdated today.
Comment from capiscuas on 26 September 2015 at 14:18
Before deleting anything it needs to be made sure that those routes are really outdated, 3 years is not too long in terms of bus routes to change in my opinion.
Comment from Sunfishtommy on 28 October 2015 at 18:10
There are 100s of bus routes in Puebla how would i be able to figure out which ones are still current? I feel like it might be much better just to delete and start over.
I also feel like there needs to be a better way to map bus routes, right now you have to use relations which means breaking up roads into very small segments to account for each turn of every bur route in Puebla.