Hi Nick, Yep thats a good idea to add the survey tag. Interestingly the ways did not not have a source tag up until jan 2013 however Steve91 added the source of Nearmap then. Which I wasn't aware we still had access to.
I'll be heading past the intersection later this week and will check it out. regards Neil On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Nick Hocking <nick.hock...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Neil, > I think the way to get this fixed permanently could be... > > Fix it one more time, re-add the note saying that the imagery is out of > date and that this intersection has been surveyed. > Change the source tag from nearmap to survey. > > Now even though one of the mnappers has a fairly colourful history of edit > wars and non response to polite messages, it may be useful to send both of > them a message pointing out that you have actually surveyed the area and > that the Bing imagery is out of date. You could send links to the Google > map sattelite view that shows the new layout and also the Google street > view that shows the old layout. > > I guess that it's possible (but not likely) that the local council have > decided that what they originally had was better and have resealed the > parts that were removed. You could check whether the latest mapper > actually surveyed it or just traced it from imagery. > I also think it would be nice if all edit software flashed up a warning > (once per session) if you change an object that has a "survey" tag. This > warning would disappear on the next click but may serve to give the mapper > second thoughts as to whether his changes are for the better or not. > > Nick > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > > -- Smap Consulting <http://smap.com.au/>| Mobile Data Collection Solutions Application Developer - neilpen...@gmail.com <minqiang.hu...@gmail.com> Twitter: @dgmsot Skype: ianaf4you Phone: +61 402 975 959 Blog: http://blog.smap.com.au <http://smap.com.au/blog>
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