Hi Richard,
I am working my way around the canals of Britain, tracing the canal banks
and tidying up locks etc.
Your work is really welcome and as someone with a particular interest in the
British canals I'm glad to see it taking place.
In terms of playing nice with the OSM community, rather
Some very good tips there RichardF.
Don't be fooled by the siren voices of the wiki. What's in the database
is valid because it's formed by consensus.
To come to the defence of the wiki (yes, there's a lot wrong with it, but
there are also some good people putting in a lot of effort), it's
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net
wrote:
Don't be fooled by the siren voices of the wiki. What's in the database is
valid because it's formed by consensus. What's on the wiki too often isn't.
Any fool can invent their own scheme, write this is how you do
On 06/08/2014 19:17, richard wrote:
Firstly a disclaimer, I am mostly an armchair mapper.
I am working my way around the canals of Britain, tracing the canal banks and
tidying up locks etc. (I have probably seen a dozen different ways that locks
have been tagged.)
(on the more general point)
On 06/08/14 22:29, Dave F. wrote:
Really sorry to say this, but some of your edits have been a bit off. In
JOSM do you load all the data in the area you're editing? I've noticed
you move whole entities, such as fences, but seem unaware that action
affects any joined elements like other fences or
Firstly a disclaimer, I am mostly an armchair mapper.
I am working my way around the canals of Britain, tracing the canal banks and
tidying up locks etc. (I have probably seen a dozen different ways that locks
have been tagged.)
I started off tagging the canal banks as
Hi Richard,
The basic problem is that the wiki descriptions tend to be prescriptive
(and written by people who do not map very much themselves) rather than
descriptive. For this reason many (perhaps most) mappers in Great Britain
tend not to place great reliance on wiki definitions. I was
Richard
After seeing your edits I started a discussion on the Tagging forum (as
canals water features are, obviously worldwide) to see if your
amendments were correct.
This wiki page was pointed out to me:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Water_details
As you can see
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