Hi,
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 6:45 PM, James Ewen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Sam Vekemans > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Provided that you have direct permission from the person who origionally > > traced those roads to change them over. Then it's fine to swap those OSM > > roads, to add in geobase roads. (But the whole point of our discussions > is > > that we need to act as a community, and work with those local mappers who > > spent all that time, to locally decide if they want to manually adjust > the > > roads to be a bit better, they want to replace it (that decision is to > be > > made by the person who originally drew in the road. (if you cant contact > > that person, ask on the talk list, we'll try :). And if you still cant > > reach that person, ask for help with manually adjusting. > > Sam, where is this coming from? Is there somewhere in the OSM > documentation that says that the person who initially creates the way > has first right of refusal for any future edits to that data? > > I haven't seen that, nor have I asked for permission to edit existing > data, nor do I expect anyone to contact me to be able to edit data > that I have entered. > > Oops, Just trying help John understand how openstreetmap works. :) My objective at the moment is to get something sane that can be used > by various groups in the city with GPS devices to tag trees, heritage > buildings etc. If you are saying that provided I can do a couple of > GPS traces down some of the city center roads then based on that we > can adjust the road system wholesale to more nearly agree with the GPS > as was done in Vancouver etc. then I'm more than happy. > > It's been a long time since I took a look at GIS systems > professionally and I'm not familiar with what is the best approach. I > would prefer not to put too much load on others knowing they are all > volunteers. > > I have a background in programming but its been 30 years since I was > involved in teaching computer science at university level. > > On mapping parties realistically this is better done in the spring / > summer / fall time frame when bicycles can be used, Ottawa gets a bit > chilly at this time of the year for organising something in the next > four months. > > Cheerio John > ... And Mapping parties can be done anytime, as a 'mapping party' can just be a group of people at a coffee shop with wi-fi talking about what we do ... :) ... sometimes no actually mapping get done :) ... as most of the time, mapping is done independently (on route to other things). ... unless your crazy like me who does this full time :-) James > VE6SRV > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >
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