Interestingly, the source given is the German phrase for "surveyed in the field"...
Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* On 12 November 2014 10:52, Andy Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, I looked at the first user in the list and the first page of > changesets loaded with one close to me which is a railway platform > apparently in the middle of a housing estate. > http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/24439915 > > As it’s a U_Bahn entry I'm assuming its meant to be a platform on an > underground line that’s just totally in the wrong geographical location. > However the name of "station 1" might suggest its someone practicing too. > > Reverting and will look for others in the west mids area. > > Cheers > Andy > > -----Original Message----- > From: SomeoneElse [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 12 November 2014 10:23 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Railway edits in the UK that could perhaps benefit > from a bit of checking. > > More info on this - it seems to be a bunch of people working for this > company: > > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/%C3%96V_Firma_Mentz_Datenverarbeitung_GmbH > > I've had no reply from the mapper that I tried to contact (although they > have fixed at least one of the problems that they created) so I've tried > again via direct message, comment on the firm's OSM wiki page and an OSM > message to the company's main OSM account. > > What concerns me is that they're still editing (with various accounts). > It's relatively easy to trace straight lines from Bing, but it needs > experience and interpretation (and a local survey!) to see how everything > on the ground relates to everything else. > > Based on their error rate so far I'd definitely still suggest that local > mappers check their edits. > > Cheers, > > Andy > > > On 08/11/2014 22:51, SomeoneElse wrote: > > An anonymous note adder (http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/267719) and > > someone on IRC noticed some problematical railway edits near > > Sutton-in-Ashfield: > > > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/311380489#map=15/53.1247/-1.2346&laye > > rs=N > > > > > > It looks like an attempt to dual the Robin Hood line went a bit wrong > > and ended up slicing through an industrial estate and some areas of > > housing (though I'm sure it was "cock-up rather than conspiracy" as > > Sir Bernard Ingham would have said). Looking at some other edits in > > the same changeset, there are some other, less obvious, issues too, > > which I've added to the changeset discussion: > > > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/26590071 > > > > The most obvious problem seems to be "tracing the railway in but not > > joining properly to other features (such as crossings)". Some > > information (e.g. "cutting=yes") has also been lost. > > > > Another local changeset: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/26587435 > > has some similar issues. > > > > There have been a number of other edits, some with rather a lot of > > deletions in them, including: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/26613977 > > > > All of these changesets could probably also benefit from a review from > > local mappers to identify potential issues. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Andy > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-GB mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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