On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Richard Fairhurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Whitelegg wrote: > >> Not sure about "EVER"! :-) >> >> e.g. what if you got lost when trying to map a footpath, then later find >> your way, you might want to chop off your diversion so that some later >> user doesn't try and draw a path over your track! >> >> Likewise if I'm mapping an area and searching out footpaths, I might end >> up going 1/2 mile along a road in order to (unsuccessfully) find a >> footpath. If the road is already mapped, I might chop out this diversion >> so I get a nice aesthetically-pleasing circular track :-) > > So maybe we are an artistic work for licensing purposes after all. ;) > > Seriously, I'd contend it doesn't matter. People shouldn't be mapping > just from GPXs without any knowledge of the area anyway.
Yeah, that's my view too. And "incorrect" GPS traces are still useful in aggregate, as anyone who has seen http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Image:Londonposter1.jpg will know, so I'm opposed to people selectively uploading GPS points also - whether because they think some points are wrong or just because they don't want to show one road. One man's errors are another man's crowd-sourced data. :-) Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
