It's potentially better, but still wrong though. For a start I've come across several cases of two postboxes with different refs that are located side-by-side. It's a bit of a lottery whether it'll tie up the correct ref here. Also, I've seen several instances of bad data in the Dracos set, e.g. a postbox in the middle of a farmer's field, and another out at sea. Tying up to a dodgy location in the first place will just result in dodgy data.
Personally I don't want to see the Dracos data imported into OSM either. We've got plenty of people mapping on the ground now and we only need a little patience to have mapped all of the boxes directly. As has been mentioned before, the process of hunting down an elusive postbox often has the benefit of some other missing feature getting mapped as well, just because you happen to be in the neighbourhood. Gregory > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:talk-gb- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Loach > Sent: 10 November 2009 08:20 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Postboxes & Payphones > > I just noticed a changeset from user elbatrop which although it says > it was to "Tie 10 Royal Mail references to known postboxes", it has > 1709 nodes in the changeset: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/3079245 > > Assuming this is import related, then linking a ref to a previously > mapped postbox is probably the least likely to cause issues. > > Ed > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
