I've certainly found that in most large shopping centres/malls etc., support elements are usually regularly spaced, and at least estimating what this spacing is & using it to correlate with features observable from outside can help refine positioning. Obviously platform lifts & escalators fit this pattern too.
Jerry On 25 September 2015 at 21:12, Andy Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > I recall tweaking the tracks some years ago to better fit imagery as they > were definitely rough drawn before that but I expect with different imagery > now and folks messing about over that couple of years of changing its all > got a bit messy. Part of the problem is that a lot of the track radius is > out of view. I expect by using the NR concourse plan as a starting point > you would get a better alignment using the escalator locations. > > > > *From:* Brian Prangle [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* 25 September 2015 13:57 > *To:* talk-gb-westmidlands; Talk GB > *Subject:* [Talk-gb-westmidlands] New St station platform alignments > > > > Does anyone know whether the alignment of the platforms under the > concourse is based on anything other than pure guesswork? The alignment at > either end where they can be seen in Bing doesn't look right either. I'm > trying to get the concourse layout to match the platforms for lifts and > escalators and they're not quite matching currently. > > regards > > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > >
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