Re: [talk-au] Nearmap badly out of date

2011-05-22 Thread David Murn
On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 20:00 +1000, Nick Hocking wrote: A nearmapper has decided that badly out-of-date nearmap imagery was more authorative than my GPS traces (taken last weekend) and has For anyone interested in the area, NearMap imagery of the new suburbs (taken the Friday before Nicks

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap badly out of date

2011-05-14 Thread Ben Kelley
: Saturday, 14 May 2011 14:28 To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Subject: [talk-au] Nearmap badly out of date No I didn't though maybe I should have. There have been discussions (on these lists) for a fer years now and the consensus opinion was that if you upload gps tracks (and mine are all still

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap badly out of date

2011-05-14 Thread John Henderson
On 14/05/11 16:35, Ben Kelley wrote: IMHO definitely put source=survey if it is. (e.g. from a gps track) It can be difficult to determine this later. E.g. I can see that there is a GPS track log nearby, but did the person use it? This brings up a point which I'd like clarification on. When I

[talk-au] Nearmap badly out of date

2011-05-14 Thread Nick Hocking
Ben Kelley wrote E.g. I can see that there is a GPS track log nearby, but did the person use it? Yes, that was exactly the arguement If there is no source tag but there is a public GPS trace uploaded to OSM, then the assumption is that it was used to plot the way and that the tag

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap badly out of date

2011-05-14 Thread Ross
On 14/05/11 14:28, Nick Hocking wrote: Ross wrote Did you tag your ways with source=survey so that it would show them that you had actually surveyed it? No I didn't though maybe I should have. There have been discussions (on these lists) for a fer years now and the consensus opinion was

[talk-au] Nearmap badly out of date

2011-05-14 Thread Nick Hocking
Ross - fixed Liz O'Neill Street... Thanks for fixing that Ross, One tiny point though, the grassed over area is just the westbound section. The bit from the corner to where my tracks end could more accurately be tagged highway=residential access=no Also, could you fix my naming error for me

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap badly out of date

2011-05-13 Thread Ross
On 11/05/11 20:00, Nick Hocking wrote: A nearmapper has decided that badly out-of-date nearmap imagery was more authorative than my GPS traces (taken last weekend) and has completed a road that is not there any longer. It has been completely grassed over so that cars can not travel along it, for

[talk-au] Nearmap badly out of date

2011-05-13 Thread Nick Hocking
Ross wrote Did you tag your ways with source=survey so that it would show them that you had actually surveyed it? No I didn't though maybe I should have. There have been discussions (on these lists) for a fer years now and the consensus opinion was that if you upload gps tracks (and mine are all

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap badly out of date

2011-05-12 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: A nearmapper has decided that badly out-of-date nearmap imagery was more authorative than my GPS traces (taken last weekend) and has completed a road that is not there any longer. It has been completely grassed over so

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap badly out of date

2011-05-12 Thread Steve Bennett
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:24 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: That's before you consider the resolution, it's so high that railway lines and switching tracks are mapped so accurately people were suggesting to those that make train games they could use OSM data as the basis of

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap badly out of date

2011-05-12 Thread John Smith
On 13 May 2011 15:38, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:24 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: That's before you consider the resolution, it's so high that railway lines and switching tracks are mapped so accurately people were suggesting to those

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap badly out of date

2011-05-12 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 3:48 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 May 2011 15:38, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:24 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: That's before you consider the resolution, it's so high that railway lines

[talk-au] Nearmap badly out of date

2011-05-11 Thread Nick Hocking
A nearmapper has decided that badly out-of-date nearmap imagery was more authorative than my GPS traces (taken last weekend) and has completed a road that is not there any longer. It has been completely grassed over so that cars can not travel along it, for some time to come, and barricades have

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap badly out of date

2011-05-11 Thread David Murn
In other news, someone somewhere did something, and someone somewhere should deal with it. Would you care to point out what the problems are, or heaven forbid fix them yourself? We've got this wonderful interface that anyone (even you) can use to change data in the database that people have