I think things are being blown out of proportion about duplicates,
points of interest is one thing that OSM can excel at, but the point
itself is only part of the data, I think the meta information is more
important and a lot of this information simply isn't being collected
at present by most
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:47 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
I think making OSM
files available to anyone and everyone is a bad idea simply because it
only takes a couple of overly zealous mappers or people with malice
and we really will have a problem on our hands.
I
On 3 March 2010 07:56, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote:
I disagree! Be careful not to be condescending to other mappers, and
I'm not being condescending, but realistic, accidents happen and
people do bad things on purpose.
please don't be protective of the data that you could otherwise
David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote:
Ive been using a couple of different techniques for doing power towers,
but one that Im looking at for more remote towers is simple survey
triangulation as you suggest. Youve got a GPS, all you need is a
compass, pen/paper and a little bit of
John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote:
Yes, the figure from a proper survey should have an accuracy of a few
centimetres. One of my many jobs (back in the 70s) was a chainman
(surveyor's assistant). With modern electronic gear, I believe there's
no such job any more.
My old man's a
Sam Couter wrote:
My old man's a surveyor so I've played chainman plenty of times too.
These days it's less about the chain and more about carrying the prism
to the benchmark and to each spot. You don't expect the surveyor to do
the walking, do you?
It was a surveyor I met in the field
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Lachlan Rogers lach...@rogers.name wrote:
Beat me to it!
I hiked the Overland Track in January, and recorded a trace of most of
it - but the busy getting-back-into-life-after-the-holidays has
prevented me from adding it to OSM.
I'll be able to provide
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote:
Another possibility is that we just say - OSM is just a repository for this
data and we don't modify it in any way, or add to it,
and then just do a complete bulk import every time a new version becomes
available.
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