Re: [Talk-GB] Surrey County Air Survey

2010-05-02 Thread Graeme Wilford
On 1 May 2010 17:47, Jonathan Bennett openstreet...@jonno.cix.co.ukwrote: [...] The imagery is fantastic. I've already been able to draw some complex road junctions far better than I could with traces alone. You and all the other people who have made this available have done an amazing job,

Re: [Talk-GB] Surrey County Air Survey

2010-05-02 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 02/05/2010 16:27, Graeme Wilford wrote: This does look a good source and I've been using it to tidy up and add detail to many of my previous edits. Anyone know it's vintage? Looks to me like it's a couple years old; sometime mid 2008? I can put it between mid 2006 and late 2008, based on

Re: [Talk-GB] Surrey County Air Survey

2010-05-02 Thread Jerry Clough - OSM
...@gmail.com To: talk-gb talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Sent: Sun, 2 May, 2010 16:27:39 Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Surrey County Air Survey On 1 May 2010 17:47, Jonathan Bennett openstreet...@jonno.cix.co.uk wrote: [...] The imagery is fantastic. I've already been able to draw some complex road

Re: [Talk-GB] Surrey County Air Survey

2010-05-02 Thread Emilie Laffray
On 2 May 2010 16:57, Jerry Clough - OSM sk53_...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: My one plea is for more assiduous use of the source tag. Surrey now has some of the densest mapping created over several OSM eras, and now has probably the richest source of imagery (Yahoo, this, OS StreetView, NPE, some

[Talk-GB] Surrey County Air Survey

2010-05-01 Thread James Rutter
Guys, there's been some suggestions on the list that there are discrepancies between the new air survey and previous GPS traces and also suggestions that the image needs 'reprojecting' etc. The image is produced by state of the art technology. As someone observed it is made up of thousands of

Re: [Talk-GB] Surrey County Air Survey

2010-05-01 Thread John Robert Peterson
I agree in principal with what you are saying, and most of this email will boil down to semantics, but I think that what I'm saying is at least valid technically. You say local authorities don't buy rubbish!! -- this is a pretty rash assumption -- I personally know instances that disprove this

Re: [Talk-GB] Surrey County Air Survey

2010-05-01 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 01/05/2010 13:04, James Rutter wrote: Guys, there's been some suggestions on the list that there are discrepancies between the new air survey and previous GPS traces and also suggestions that the image needs 'reprojecting' etc. James, you've got the wrong end of the stick on this. I'll