Hi
I have wasted an entire afternoon working on Lake St Clair in Tasmania by using
multipolygon relationship to map Lake St Clair. It is a big lake so to get any
reasonable detail blows the 2000 point limit of OSM by using a simple polygon.
I have reached the point it will become a square of four points and renamed
"Lake OSM of despair". Annoyingly I was going well at it but then the wheels
fell off. I am using Polatch 2 and slowy being going mad as Bing has poor
coverage of the area, the rendering takes forever, and driving me up the wall
this is my first attempt at using this technique so no idea of it is me, or the
every unreliable OSM rendering servers that flunk out on any decent mapping
effort. I get lovely squares of missing Bing photo that force save and view
then edit. The refresh option takes me to any zoom level that it thinks best
to make me insane. Sufficient to say OSM help is about up to the usual poor
standard. Polatch does nothing to help to find if you have broken links around
the lake and I have been around the lake so many times hunting for such things
that sanity and temper is at overload settings. I have the usual OSM issue of
half the world saying use coastline on large lakes and the other half saving
no, use multipolygons.
As you may have gathered by my words OSM's and Bing's failures have made
this a nightmare of a place to map and almost broken my interest in mapping in
OSM. And to top it off my mega
expensive Asus laptop is as flakey as ever with even a blue screen of
death. If another programs demands an update I will take extremely
prejudiced action against the nearest programmer that I can find!!!
Can someone please look at the Lake St Clair and tell me what on earth is the
issue. Please consider it an act of kindness or the provision of mental
health service.
Thanks Brett
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