Re: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey

2015-01-01 Thread Michael Patrick
> While realigning the coastline is possible, they will be surveying for a decade or so just to figure out everything that moved. No, not a decade. While it will take some amount of time for changes to propagate to cartographic products according to their update cycle, the 'figuring out what move

Re: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey

2014-12-31 Thread John Willis
It was over 5 meters in some places along the coast, but only a very small part. Under the ocean, it was 25m. Most of japan stayed put, but the northern section along the coast was stretched a bit wider, but the coast sank about 1m, so with coastal flooding, japan didn't get that much bigger.

Re: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey

2014-12-31 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
According to http://www.dw.de/quake-shifted-japan-by-over-two-meters/a-14909967 it was 2,4 m. 2014-12-30 22:22 GMT+01:00 Rainer Fügenstein : > > W> Ultimate 'accuracy'? You do realise that the tectonic plates are moving? > > btw: as a result of the Mar.2011 earthquake, japan has moved by at > lea

Re: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey

2014-12-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-12-24 0:21 GMT+01:00 Friedrich Volkmann : > I used estimated_accuracy=* or gps_accuracy=* a couple of times, but I > doubt > that it prevents other mappers from moving or even deleting them. Some use > editors like Potlatch, so they are not aware of tags. Some do thousands of > edits, all of

Re: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey

2014-12-30 Thread Rainer Fügenstein
W> Ultimate 'accuracy'? You do realise that the tectonic plates are moving? btw: as a result of the Mar.2011 earthquake, japan has moved by at least 5m. how did OSM react? ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.

Re: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey

2014-12-30 Thread Kotya Karapetyan
ng-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: > > Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 15:27:23 +0100 > From: Kotya Karapetyan > To: Rainer Fügenstein , "Tag discussion, > strategy and > related tools" > Subject: Re: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey > Message-ID: > >

Re: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey

2014-12-29 Thread Warin
On 30/12/2014 6:41 AM, tagging-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 15:27:23 +0100 From: Kotya Karapetyan To: Rainer Fügenstein , "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools" Subject: Re: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey Message-ID: Content-Type:

Re: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey

2014-12-29 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Kotya Karapetyan wrote on 2014-12-29 15:27: Just recently I discovered that something in this direction already exists: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_France/Rep%C3%A8res_G%C3%A9od%C3%A9siques#Permanence_des_rep.C3.A8res Example: https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=23/43.4227

Re: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey

2014-12-29 Thread Kotya Karapetyan
Happy holidays and 2015 everyone! > what is needed here is some tag, saying "don't touch these > coordinates, they've been surveyed with high(est) accuracy". I second this idea. Just recently I discovered that something in this direction already exists: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiPr

Re: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey

2014-12-26 Thread André Pirard
On 2014-12-23 20:01, christian.pietz...@googlemail.com wrote : > the problem with nodes is, that they are easily overssen. > It would be nice to have the possibility to show a warning when moving > an opject with high accuracy. The best examples are GPS reference > points like this: https://www.ope

Re: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey

2014-12-25 Thread Rainer Fügenstein
TP> It was not clear if the OP indeed wants to map pipelines, TP> or was just quoting the pipeline expert for his opinion about TP> surveying methods. the latter. I'm referring to all nodes, not just pipelines & marker. Just used the conversation I had some time ago as an example. W> Terms !! W>

Re: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey

2014-12-25 Thread christian.pietz...@googlemail.com
the problem with nodes is, that they are easily overssen. It would be nice to have the possibility to show a warning when moving an opject with high accuracy. The best examples are GPS reference points like this: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2977364293 Since they have fixed coordinates it wou

Re: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey

2014-12-24 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Friedrich Volkmann wrote on 2014-12-23 23:59: There are no GPS traces for pipeline markes. There are traces for roads and paths only. It was not clear if the OP indeed wants to map pipelines, or was just quoting the pipeline expert for his opinion about surveying methods. And if you walk/drive

Re: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey

2014-12-24 Thread André Pirard
Oops, I forgot to finish a phrase... I just checked a place where I had spotted a Bing offset before and that disappeared.  National aerial photos 2009 and 2012 are offset by 2.8m. Bing is almost in the middle. But that's because of a perspective effect. The natio

Re: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey

2014-12-24 Thread André Pirard
Accuracy is indeed a problem. An early OSM update I made was moving a borderline by 250m and put a devotion site from an arrondissement to another. Since then many corrections of more that 5 m, mainly due to user being unaware of Bing's offset (at close zoom of co

Re: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey

2014-12-23 Thread André Pirard
On 2014-12-23 21:39, Rainer wrote : MK> maybe just add a note to the pipeline (note = "maped mit GPS with MK> guaranteed accuracy of "). I'm rather thinking of something machine-readable, enabling the editor to warn the user in case he/she is about to change high pr

Re: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey

2014-12-23 Thread Warin
On 24/12/2014 11:29 AM, tagging-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 17:37:34 +0100 From: Rainer Fügenstein To: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools" Subject: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey Message-ID: <811143140.20141223173...@oudeis.org> Co

Re: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey

2014-12-23 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 23.12.2014 17:37, Rainer Fügenstein wrote: > mapper A, by means of DGPS, MilStd GPS, crystal ball etc., is able to > achieve an accuracy of, say, a few centimeters and uses it to add new > nodes (POIs) to OSM. > > some time later, mapper B with his/her ancestors mechanical GPS device > (*), ach

Re: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey

2014-12-23 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 23.12.2014 17:57, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > I would consider that a non-issue as you said, for those reasons: > > - When it comes to GPS traces on objects that don't move (*), the > beauty of crowdsourcing is on our side. The collection of > traces over a longer time creates a cloud of traces wh

Re: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey

2014-12-23 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 23.12.2014 21:39, Rainer Fügenstein wrote: > I'm rather thinking of something machine-readable, enabling the editor > to warn the user in case he/she is about to change high precision > data. There are quite a couple of editors. Most certainly, some of them will not implement the feature. Also

Re: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey

2014-12-23 Thread Rainer Fügenstein
MK> maybe just add a note to the pipeline (note = "maped mit GPS with MK> guaranteed accuracy of "). I'm rather thinking of something machine-readable, enabling the editor to warn the user in case he/she is about to change high precision data. ___ Tag

Re: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey

2014-12-23 Thread Michael Kugelmann
Am 23.12.2014 um 17:37 schrieb Rainer Fügenstein: what is needed here is some tag, saying "don't touch these coordinates, they've been surveyed with high(est) accuracy". maybe just add a note to the pipeline (note = "maped mit GPS with guaranteed accuracy of "). Cheers, Michael. ___

Re: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey

2014-12-23 Thread Malcolm Herring
On 23/12/2014 16:57, Tom Pfeifer wrote: The collection of traces over a longer time creates a cloud of traces which form a Gaussian bell curve, in density, over the ground truth. Except that the position of a node in the DB is the last edited value, not the mean position of all historica

Re: [Tagging] Accuracy of survey

2014-12-23 Thread Tom Pfeifer
I would consider that a non-issue as you said, for those reasons: - When it comes to GPS traces on objects that don't move (*), the beauty of crowdsourcing is on our side. The collection of traces over a longer time creates a cloud of traces which form a Gaussian bell curve, in density, ove

[Tagging] Accuracy of survey

2014-12-23 Thread Rainer Fügenstein
while we are at it, imagine the following situation: mapper A, by means of DGPS, MilStd GPS, crystal ball etc., is able to achieve an accuracy of, say, a few centimeters and uses it to add new nodes (POIs) to OSM. some time later, mapper B with his/her ancestors mechanical GPS device (*), achiev