Martin Spott wrote: > Jon Stockill wrote: >> Josh Babcock wrote: > >>> I say we issue everyone a GPS unit and start taking out own data :) >> It's being done already: http://www.free-map.org.uk/ > > Well, "Freemap data is from now on being contributed to the > OpenStreetMap database." I must admit that I've never seen "Freemap" > before and I'm really happy to see they did this move in order to > combine their forces.
The combination of the two is certainly a good thing. The free-map author is already working on a new renderer for openstreetmap, and the amount of data in openstreetmap is growing quite quickly. I discovered this the other day - seems like it may be a useful resource for keeping track of this type of project: http://slashgeo.org/ > Please take into account that merging such data of different sources > and resolutions is _very_ time consuming work because you almost always > have to adjust the boundaries manually. For example we have roads in > the high resolution dataset which are placed almost correctly and the > same road in the low resolution dataset has an offset of several > hundred meters .... Yes - I've seen just how bad vmap0 roads are in my local area - trying to match edges between datasets would be a complete nightmare. > We are already preparing such a merge but I expect the process to take > several, not to say numerous months until we're ready to offer the > first results. Is there any way people can help with this? -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
