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A nearmapper has decided that badly out-of-date nearmap imagery was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 some
time to come, and barricades have been placed at the ends.
So did you put in barrier=bollard or similar at the end of the way?
Did you tag your ways with source=survey so that it would show them that
you had actually surveyed it?
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.
As David pointed out this is mapped as highway=construction so will not
be routable any way.
I hope the user has the gumption to quitely revert his incorrect
changes. I don't suppose anyone wondered why I would go so far out of
my way to map all the new roads and then fail to drive the last bit of
this one.
He also found a bit of pavement that I has missed mapping so that was
good. He used a bit of poetic licence to mark it "one way". Even
though there are no "one way" markings on the road itself, the
topography indicates that it can ONLY be one way, so I think that this
action was entirely appropriate even though it departs from "map only
what is on the ground".
And so it's obvious that it should then be oneway and has been mapped as
such.
Nearmap ( near enough is good enough)
Sorry Nearmap - I'm not having a go at your excellent imagery, just
the way some people choose to use it.
PS - I drove back out there again this morning to check on a street
sign where I was sure I had a typo (and I did, although I now can't
fix it). There were some more new roads open so I have mapped them as
well.
So where are we talking about so we can see if your surveying skills are
up to the task?
Cheers
Ross
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