Rob Nickerson wrote:
2). iD is a general purpose editor. It can be used for OpenHistoricalMap too.
Indeed - perhaps I should have been clearer that I'm talking about the instance in use on the OSM site used to edit the OSM map, not any other instance which presumably could feature any layers that it liked.
So how do we deal with an overload of map layers? I think it's a tool issue.
Indeed - and I'm sure that the iD developers would say "patches welcome" at this point!
So to conclude, I wouldn't remove any layers right now. We know that the Mapbox layer is likely to improve as they acquire and process more data (see their blog), but similarly the old OS layers hosted by OSM provide an alternate to the NLS versions (they may use different year sheets in some places) and keepping them online will help motivate people to scan more historic sheets in. We are thinking of having a scanning party here in the West Midlands!
I don't think anyone's suggesting removing them altogether, but it seems senseless to me to feature old inaccuate maps in an editor instance targeted at new users above GPS traces.
When I select "edit in iD" on the main site (on a laptop PC with a larger than average number of vertical pixels) I don't se any options below "custom" - so I don't see that I can add a GPS layer, and I don't see that I can align imagery where it is misplaced, but I am invited to use the e.g. Bartholomew 1/2 inch from 189x as a source!
Do you actually use e.g. the Bartholomew 1/2 inch layer as a source for updating non-historical information in OSM?
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