On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Ian Sergeant <[email protected]> wrote: > Let's give it a few days, and come to terms with the effort we're facing and > the kind of changes required before deciding the response we need. I'm not > convinced that having features drawn in without local knowledge or survey is > the necessarily the best way forward - especially in areas where we have > local contributors and knowledge of the areas requiring remapping. So many > private roads, farm trails, gates, fences, etc. > > However, I'd renew the call for experienced overseas armchair OSMers to take > a look around and help in ways that don't require local knowledge. Lots of > split objects, deformed coastline, waterways and other ways where nodes have > been removed, etc, that anyone who would like to adopt an area can find > easily and fix.
IMHO it would be very beneficial to have overseas armchair mappers in whatever capacity they like. There are so many little roads around the place - I'd much rather have them mapped, with some inaccuracies (eg, access permissions wrong), than not mapped at all. Hell, most of my mapping is of this nature - parts of regional Victoria that I haven't visited, but am just mapping from the air. We don't have the resources to be picky. People with local knowledge can always do a second pass and add those fine details like gates, distinctions between public and private roads, street names etc. I don't know anything about HOT - but however people are rallied, we'd be grateful. Also, FWIW, the Bing imagery is generally great - I've certainly not seen anything like a 100m discrepancy. Wherever I have a GPS trace, it's always aligned very well with the Bing imagery. IMHO (possibly in the minority) even mapping based on misaligned imagery isn't a major problem. What's worse - a town that is perfectly mapped but 100m, or the same town not mapped at all? Steve _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
