Re: [OSM-talk] Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries

2020-07-19 Thread Alan Mackie
On Sat, 18 Jul 2020, 21:45 Mike Thompson, wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 2:23 PM Mark Wagner wrote: > >> >> * Two adjacent sections of track being tagged as "grade 2" and "grade >> 4" not because of any difference in road surface, but because one has >> a line of grass between the

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries

2020-07-19 Thread Hauke Stieler
Hi, I like your idea. Just a week ago, the user Gassol also edited tracks in Hamburg, Germany, and he used bad, old and blurry imagery (Bing). A lot of his edited tracks aren't even visible there, because of trees or just bad image quality. I talked to him and he isn't a local person, just makes

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries

2020-07-19 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Joseph, Am 18/07/2020 um 21.51 schrieb Joseph Eisenberg: > Do you have evidence that most of the surface tags added by this user are > unreliable? Review results by westnordost (https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=795002#p795002, translated with DeepL): > Here are some bad

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries

2020-07-19 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 18. Jul 2020, at 21:11, Michael Reichert wrote: > > I am reaching out to the community in > advance because different people might have a different opinion on how > reliable tracktype=* needs to be It will hardly be more reliable than its definition can be universally

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries

2020-07-18 Thread Mikel Maron
A wide scale revert without assessing closely the quality and particulars in specific countries is not a good idea. Just an opinion that a method is flawed is not enough to demonstrate that such a wide scale revert is justified. Much more detailed analysis is needed before it should even be

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries

2020-07-18 Thread 80hnhtv4agou--- via talk
in the united states the hole thing starts out as gravel ,    >Saturday, July 18, 2020 3:44 PM -05:00 from Mike Thompson >: >  >    >On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 2:23 PM Mark Wagner < mark+...@carnildo.com > wrote: >  >>* Two adjacent sections of track being tagged as "grade 2" and "grade >>  4"

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries

2020-07-18 Thread Mike Thompson
On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 2:23 PM Mark Wagner wrote: > > * Two adjacent sections of track being tagged as "grade 2" and "grade > 4" not because of any difference in road surface, but because one has > a line of grass between the ruts and the other doesn't. > In rural areas where I have spent

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries

2020-07-18 Thread Andy Townsend
On 18/07/2020 20:51, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: It's perfectly reasonable to add surface=unpaved or similar based on aerial imagery alone, if you have some experience in distinguishing different surfaces of roads and tracks from aerial imagery. I'd agree that most of the time telling

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries

2020-07-18 Thread Mark Wagner
Almost all of the tracktype mapping around me has been done by armchair mappers working from from aerial images. Tracks in my area are usually produced in one of two ways: * A bulldozer is used to scrape vegetation and topsoil off. * A given route is driven repeatedly, eroding any vegetation or

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries

2020-07-18 Thread Joseph Eisenberg
It's perfectly reasonable to add surface=unpaved or similar based on aerial imagery alone, if you have some experience in distinguishing different surfaces of roads and tracks from aerial imagery. Do you have evidence that most of the surface tags added by this user are unreliable? – Joseph

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries

2020-07-18 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Am 18/07/2020 um 21.19 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny via talk: > Are you sure that just satellite imagery was used? I suspect that also > aerial imagery was used in edits. In Hamburg, Germany, where aerial imagery of the city is available, Bing was used. >> I think that the description "all

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries

2020-07-18 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via talk
Jul 18, 2020, 21:09 by osm...@michreichert.de: > Hi Mateusz, > > Am 18/07/2020 um 19.29 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny: > >> Can you link affected data in Poland? >> >> In Poland you actually can reliably estimate real tracktype based solely >> on high quality aerial images (not satellite imagery

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries

2020-07-18 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Mateusz, Am 18/07/2020 um 19.29 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny: > Can you link affected data in Poland? > > In Poland you actually can reliably estimate real tracktype based solely > on high quality aerial images (not satellite imagery that is unlikely to be > sufficient), typically Geoportal 2

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries

2020-07-18 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via talk
Jul 18, 2020, 20:07 by osm...@michreichert.de: > Am 18/07/2020 um 19.29 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny: > >> Can you link affected data in Poland? >> >> In Poland you actually can reliably estimate real tracktype based solely >> on high quality aerial images (not satellite imagery that is unlikely

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries

2020-07-18 Thread Andy Townsend
On 18/07/2020 17:51, Florimond Berthoux wrote: If the estimation was really bad almost all the time why not, but here the example given is ok. How do you know - have you visited that area and done a ground survey? Best Regards, Andy ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries

2020-07-18 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Mateusz, Am 18/07/2020 um 19.29 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny: > Can you link affected data in Poland? > > In Poland you actually can reliably estimate real tracktype based solely > on high quality aerial images (not satellite imagery that is unlikely to be > sufficient), typically Geoportal 2

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries

2020-07-18 Thread stevea
I modestly (on occasion) set tracktype=* based on imagery, but only using higher-quality imagery where I have high confidence I can quite accurately do so. On those few occasions where I later visit the site / track and am able to glean how accurate my tagging was, I've either never had to

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries

2020-07-18 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via talk
Can you link affected data in Poland? In Poland you actually can reliably estimate real tracktype based solely on high quality aerial images (not satellite imagery that is unlikely to be sufficient), typically Geoportal 2 aerial and LIDAR data available in ISOK Cień dataset. Note that your

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries

2020-07-18 Thread Florimond Berthoux
I see no big issue of using only aerial images to set track_type or surface. You can get a fairly good result with such sources. So no, you should not blindly revert its modifications. If the estimation was really bad almost all the time why not, but here the example given is ok. Le sam. 18 juil.

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries

2020-07-18 Thread stevea
On Jul 18, 2020, at 7:09 AM, Rory McCann wrote: > In addition (I can't find the link now but) I recall reading about the death > of a hiker or climber who used some app which used OSM data, and the app > didn't distinguish between track_types (or there was no track_type data for > that route),

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries

2020-07-18 Thread Rory McCann
In addition (I can't find the link now but) I recall reading about the death of a hiker or climber who used some app which used OSM data, and the app didn't distinguish between track_types (or there was no track_type data for that route), so the hiker presumed it was OK to go on, and

Re: [OSM-talk] Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries

2020-07-18 Thread Andy Townsend
On 18/07/2020 11:53, Michael Reichert wrote: I do not believe that one can add reliable tracktype=* information from satellite imagery without having some ground truth knowledge in order to know how to interpret the imagery in that region. I think that "without having some ground truth

[OSM-talk] Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries

2020-07-18 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, while reviewing changes in my local area, I discovered that user Modest7 has been adding tracktype=* tags to lots of highway=track at various locations. I asked him what sources he used apart from the satellite imagery mentioned in the imagery_used=* tag of his changesets. See