On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Nick Hocking <[email protected]> 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 A nearmapper has decided that badly out-of-date nearmap imagery was 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 some > time to come, and barricades have been placed at the ends. > > Well done guys, you are well on the way to making OSM as "good" as > google maps. This reinforces my belief that imagery (whether Bing or > nearmap) should never be used for anything that needs to be routable.
You're not serious. Nearmap is the best resource OSM has ever had in Australia. For every kilometre of road where Nearmap shows something contradicted by more recent surveys, there are probably 100+ kilometres of roads that no one could ever have been bothered surveying. In the case you mention, you could consider mapping the (now abandoned) road as highway=abandoned, abandoned=residential, source=survey 2011 or whatever. Steve _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
