So, I followed the links below and added an offset. But this simply isn't a viable solution to the problem because it only works for JOSM and not iD.
I managed to convince one mapper to type in the offset manually in iD every time, but that is a horrible thing to ask new mappers to do, very offputting. And now I can see Amazon mappers using an iD variant that doesn't have the offset and moving all the roads as a result: https://osmcha.org/changesets/89549551?aoi=758c7f2b-faca-44e5-acd2-0cb8c33034bd https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/89549551 This is going to keep happening so long as OSM has multiple image sources and multiple editors. Frankly I'm amazed that this isn't a solved problem. Having done some mapping across the country recently, it seems like Bing is offset to the previous best imagery across the country, but by varying amounts. Is there really no solution that can be applied to the source Bing layer? Or should we all just accept Bing as golden? Having added thousands of buildings and fixed roads to align to the previous best imagery, I don't have a good solution to the problem, and it is demotivating to think that others are going to come along and move individual roads/buildings to align without considering the bigger picture. The only solution I can think of is to move all nodes in the area I've worked on to match the new Bing (ie a mass edit). Any other suggestions? Stephen On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 at 23:36, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-GB <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/Imagery_Offset_Database/Quick_Start > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Imagery_Offset_Database > (I think that nowadays it is built in - is plugin installation still > necessary?) > > > No idea about iD support - > https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/search?q=imagery+offset > > Jul 13, 2020, 00:21 by [email protected]: > > Wow, the imagery is really good. But in my area the imagery is about > 3-4m east west and 3-4m north south out of alignment with Esri World > Imagery (Clarity) Beta, which is what I've been using up until now > (for thousands of buildings). > https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/51.39886/-0.24940 > > Is there any way to unify the alignments? > > Stephen > > > On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 06:41, Gareth L <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I’ve noticed patches of vastly improved bing imagery since December, but it > is really patchy. > Gareth > > > On 6 Jul 2020, at 23:21, Cj Malone <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > I was splitting houses in Portsmouth/Southsea this morning. The imagery > > is great, I don't know if it was part of this update, or if it's been > > like this for a while. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
