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CheckAutopista2 is here

Posted by k1wi on 27 August 2015 in English. Last updated on 29 August 2015.

If you just want to try it out right away here it is: http://k1wiosm.github.io/checkautopista2/

Interstate 15 in California on CheckAutopista

I have been working on this for months now. The new version of CheckAutopista is faster, easier to use on mobile devices and has been completely redesigned from the ground up.

What is CheckAutopista?

CheckAutopista is a quality assurance tool for motorways. This tool allows you to select a motorway in OSM (if it is tagged in a relation with type=route and route=road) and check a lot of features in it.

Car navigation is clearly one of the most popular use cases of OpenStreetMap data. Assuring that data is of high quality is a hard task, and even harder if we don’t have any tools that help us detect missing, incorrect or old data. That is how visualization tools can help us.

CheckAutopista allows you to visualize a motorway in a simple interface using colors to detect missing information such as maxspeed, lanes, destination, exit_to, name, ref and to visualize exits, toll booths, service and rest areas.

What is new on CheckAutopista2 ?

  • CheckAutopista now comes with a custom designed background map which emphasizes motorways.

  • CheckAutopista has been totally remade externally trying to make it more beautiful and easier to use.

  • CheckAutopista can be used easily on small mobile devices. You can change the size of the circles on the settings.

  • CheckAutopista now supports destination:ref and destination:int_ref tags on the exit panels.

  • I am trying to contribute to the usage of destination tags instead of exit_to tags, so CheckAutopista now uses the green color only for destination and yellow for exit_to.

  • CheckAutopista is now much more efficient on the Overpass API requests making it much faster.

  • CheckAutopista has also been totally remade internally to make it faster and improve on the readability of the code.

Examples

Here are some examples of some motorways of the world on CheckAutopista:

That is all. I hope you like it. If you have any suggestions please leave them in the comments below and if you would like to see the code, report any bug, contribute or fork it: https://github.com/k1wiosm/checkautopista2

If you just want to try it out right away here it is: http://k1wiosm.github.io/checkautopista2/

Discussion

Comment from stephan75 on 27 August 2015 at 19:46

Nice job!!

So we need a new screenshot on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CheckAutopista ? ;-)

Comment from TheDutchMan13 on 13 September 2015 at 09:59

Thank you for your hard work!

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