I agree. Armchair mapping is useful for features difficult to survey and
perhaps appropriate for (eg) roads not yet surveyed but it should never
be applied to overwrite features already present, features probably
accuratly mapped already.
The OSM wiki page on Armchair mapping used to make that clear, I have
not looked at it recently....
David
On 19/10/13 12:07, Neil Penman wrote:
I did that after the first revert. However it didn't help :). I
think it important to try to develop a culture that existing map data
should not be changed unless you know you are improving it. If the
map shows a road network that differs from the Satellite in a way that
may be due to design then either you should contact the previous
mapper before changing it or you should get on your bike and head out
to the site to verify that the satellite imagery is in fact correct.
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 11:58 AM, John Henderson <snow...@gmx.com
<mailto:snow...@gmx.com>> wrote:
On 19/10/13 11:20, Neil Penman wrote:
Unfortunately the culture seems to have become that any accurate
local mapping should be replaced with unthinking tracing over
the top
of obsolete satellite imagery.
I find that it sometimes helps to add an appropriately-worded note to
the nodes or ways in question:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:note
John
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