On 3 Jul 2008, at 09:40, Alex Mauer wrote: > SteveC wrote: >> short answer - YES :-) > > Slightly longer answer: Yes, but be careful. In many places the Yahoo > aerial imagery is offset from real life by some amount (I've heard 30 > meters up to 1km in some cases). So if an area looks totally > different > from what's on the ground, correcting to match Yahoo! is OK. But if > it's just shifted in one direction, then don't correct it without > first > verifying with a GPS track that the Yahoo! imagery is correct.
Yeah so I guess what I was really saying is that Yahoo is mostly vastly better than TIGER, even if it is off a bit occasionally. > > > -Alex Mauer "hawke" > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-us > Best Steve _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-us
