Re: [OSM-talk-ie] What to do about sloppy mapping errors

2017-01-13 Thread Rory McCann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Adrian! On 11/01/17 21:46, Adrian Thomas wrote: > 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. And

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] What to do about sloppy mapping errors

2017-01-12 Thread Tony
Hello Adrian. It can take anything between a few minutes and a few days for edits to appear on the live map, so don't let the delay put you off editing. The initial mapping of a region is often quite crude, done from a mix of aerial photos and various database dumps, which can often be

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] What to do about sloppy mapping errors

2017-01-11 Thread Marc Gemis
Welcome Adrian, On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 9:46 PM, Adrian Thomas wrote: > I was quite disheartened next day when less than half of my > new additions appeared on the map so I haven't been back. This could be caused by a number of reasons: - your browser was caching the

[OSM-talk-ie] What to do about sloppy mapping errors

2017-01-11 Thread Adrian Thomas
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