New Zealand/Missing Streets

New Zealand Missing Streets
Author:	Kylenz
License:	MIT License
Platform:	Web
Status:	Active
Version:	2.0.0 (2024-02-18)
Language:	English
Website:	https://osm-nz.github.io/missing-streets
Source code:	osm-nz/missing-streets GitHub
Programming language:	TypeScript
Identifies street names that are missing in OpenStreetMap, using data from LINZ.
Features Feature Value Map Display Display map yes Map data ? Source ? Rotate map ? 3D view ? Shows website ? Shows phone number ? Shows operation hours ? Routing ? Navigating ? Tracking ? Monitoring Monitoring ? Show current track ? Open existing track yes Altitude diagram ? Show POD value ? Satellite view ? Show live NMEA data ? Show speed ? Send current position ? Editing Add POIs no Edit / Delete POIs no Add way no Edit geometries no Edit arbitrary tags of existing OSM objects yes Edit relations yes View notes ? Create notes ? Edit notes ? Work offline ? Support imagery offset DB ? Upload to OSM yes Rendering ? Accessibility ?

The 'Missing Streets' tool allows you quickly find and fix missing street names in New Zealand. This is based on the NZ Roads dataset from LINZ.

The editor allows you to make simple edits, for example, fixing a typo in a road name. For more complex edits, a button takes you straight to the iD editor.

How to use it

Visit the tool, and find a street that you want to add or fix.

Adding new streets

There are some streets that the tool suggests which do not exist yet. Use highway=construction or highway=proposed for these roads.

There are also cases where the street no longer exists or never existed (e.g. Paper roads). In most cases these roads should be ignored.

Updating names

In some cases the street is already mapped, but the name is incorrect.

You can either:

• replace the current name=* tag
• or add the suggested name to a tag like alt_name=*, old_name=*, official_name=*, or not:name=* (if the suggestion is incorrect)

Code & Data

The code for the tool is available from osm-nz/missing-streets ^GitHub. The data comes from LINZ's Roads dataset, which is updated weekly.

How it works

The tool extracts every highway=* feature in New Zealand from the OpenStreetMap Planet, and compares them with the dataset from LINZ. Names that are completely missing in OSM are shown in the tool. This process takes about 5 minutes.

This script automatically runs on Wednesday morning (NZ time), and uploads the result to the CDN. The website fetches the latest data from that CDN.