2009/2/10 Brian Quinion <[email protected]>: >> Should we investigate buying aerial photography for some of these un-loved >> places which would allow us the capture the base road structure and >> land-usage prior to any actual visit and speed things up a lot? > Please, please NO! > > Mapping an area after it has been traced is: > > a) almost as much work as without the tracing (you still have to go > down each road to look for missed features) > b) very unsatisfying because it doesn't look like you have achieved anything
Just wanted to follow up on this point. I've been mapping bits around Warrington recently using Yahoo imagery, as there is no coverage around areas I know, and there are big rural areas round there with little mapped. Do others feel the same as Brian? I could understand why. For now I'm leaving roads alone and adding fields, woodland, streams etc via Yahoo imagery as these are harder to map by GPS survey. cheers, LT _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
