Re: [Talk-us] Arm chair mapping challenges

2015-08-19 Thread Arun Ganesh
Yeah, I've had some problem edits from the MapBox paid editors as well not paying attention and believing that the Tiger data and Bing is pretty much 'always right'. They most of the time don't even check the history of ways before they edit and add back in stuff that another 'on-the-ground'

Re: [Talk-us] Arm chair mapping challenges

2015-08-19 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/18/2015 8:05 AM, James Mast wrote: Best thing to do here IMO, is to call them out the edit(s) in the changeset comment(s) area and tell them why it shouldn't have been done and hopefully they'll learn from this. I would strongly urge people to do this, for a few reasons - They should

Re: [Talk-us] Arm chair mapping challenges

2015-08-18 Thread James Mast
To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-us] Arm chair mapping challenges I live a few miles from the new Apple campus that is currently under construction, so I see change sets for that area in my Who Did It RSS feed. The site is fenced off and the satellite imagery available for OSM

Re: [Talk-us] Arm chair mapping challenges

2015-08-18 Thread Mike N
On 8/18/2015 10:27 AM, Tod Fitch wrote: Some other mapper has updated the area to remove the old buildings and streets and marked the area as under construction. All of that seems correct from what I’ve read in the paper and what little I can see on the ground. But it means the area differs