On 28/10/2013 19:28, SomeoneElse wrote:
series, Mapbox Satellite or Mapquest Open Aerial, and if anyone's using NPE, Bartholomew 1/2 inch or OS 1 inch as backgrounds they probably shouldn't be using iD to do it (if for no other reason due to alignment issues). Am I maligning these sources and is there actually a valid reason why someone might want to trace from, say, NPE when more recent better aligned data is now available?
NPE was great in its day, and a big thank you to all involved in providing it, it was a fantastic help in getting a rural map of Wharfedale up.
Now, for OSM mapping per se, I never use it. Bing for GPS adjusted tracing and the OS 25K layers are almost completely a superset when it comes to looking for names, such as farm houses. As posters later in this thread point out, there is still some separate value for historic use, a number of mineral lines, for example, appear on NPE but not on either of the 25K layers due to survey dates. I have no strong views, but there may be value in removing it from editing OSM per se. I really wish that person who traced all those streams (me) hadn't because the alignment is terrible and a lot of the footpaths are way off even if they actually exist now.
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