On 20/02/2012, Dermot McNally <[email protected]> wrote: > The idea being that any contributors who provide a usable description > of an identifiable section of their track will help us to improve the > map. Something that will really help with this is that by the end of > 2012, Bing will have complete aerial coverage of Ireland, sufficient > by and large to see many mountain tracks, but not necessarily to > determine their characteristics. So the aerial imagery will help get > around the fact that the GPX traces are imperfect.
I'm worried that the description will rarely be precise enough for OSM mapping, unless the MV members know that this data is for OSM, and include the necessary info. Maybe when an MV member uploads a trace, he could tick an optional "use this to improve OSM" checkbox which would : * Indicate what type of description is useful for OSM. * Set the appropriate licence for the data. * State that the MV member is ok with being contacted by an OSM member if more info is needed. Aditionaly, if the trace can be later tagged as "mapped in OSM", and "mappable but not mapped" traces can be searched for, OSMers will be able to pick up work to do from the MV traces. This would be a great mutually-helpfull way to join the MV and OSM communities :) -- Vincent de Phily _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
