I've recently retired and moved to live in West Cork. As an experienced hill walker I have been using GAIA GPS to explore new routes across the hills and mountains in the west of Ireland. GAIA GPS uses OSM and I noticed that some local features such as buildings were missing from OSM so I enroled as a contributor a few months back. I spent a happy evening adding local features which I know exist using the aerial photo backdrop for accuracy. I was quite disheartened next day when less than half of my new additions appeared on the map so I haven't been back. However, I have recently noticed quite a number of significant errors on OSM in my locality and I'd really like to EITHER go in and correct someone else's carelessness OR simply report the error(s) and let someone else put them right. I think I could contribute quite a lot to OSM in West Cork and Kerry simply by checking out stuff which I suspect to be wrong. For instance north of Bantry is a well known col shown as "Priest's Leap 572m" despite the fact that a) it isn't that high, b) it's shown below the 450m contour and c) even the nearby hill top is only 520m. This isn't even a typo because it isn't 472m either! Some of my other "errors" relate to features shown as roads which are actually overgrown tracks which you couldn't even walk along much less drive and certainly NOT a public road. In one case there is a "track" across a field on OSM which was shown on the aerial photos as no more than the marks left by a tractor on one pass. Definitely neither a road nor a track.
Am I authorised to start cleaning up these blunders or should I just go back to using OS maps? cheers, Adrian. _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
