[Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2013-06-02

These are based off of Lambertus's work here: http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl If you have questions or comments about these maps, please feel free to ask. However, please do not send me private mail. The odds are, someone else will have the same questions, and by asking on the talk-us@

[Talk-us] Google maps source

I just ran into an area where someone tagged streets with source=google maps. Looks like an un-aware new user who only had 8 changesets over two days and that was it. What to do about this? http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Hercumike/edits Brian

Re: [Talk-us] Google maps source

Brian, If good quality TIGER data exists for this area and can validate the changes then I suggest it's OK to change the source to TIGER, otherwise it seems prudent to backout all the changesets tagged as sourced from Google Maps. The one-way flows can sometimes be inferred from pavement

Re: [Talk-us] Google maps source

Brian, I have done that before. If the road geometry is incorrect in OpenStreetMap due to inaccuracies with the source TIGER Files and it is either incorrect or non-existent on Bing, but correct on Google Maps, and we use bing imagery for tracing the road geometry, but Google Maps to discover

Re: [Talk-us] Google maps source

Rick Marshall wrote: If we use bing imagery for tracing the road geometry, but Google Maps to discover the name of the road is it incorrect to use source=google? You are not tracing a road geometry from Google Maps, but you might be using it for other attribute data.