On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 23:01 -0700, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: > On 23 Apr 2009, at 14:25 , Russ Nelson wrote: > > On Apr 22, 2009, at 11:02 AM, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: > > > >> what is the benefit in doing this? > > > > There is no other method for somebody to say "I looked at this and > > everything about it is correct." > > and then what is this info good for? just because someone claims it's > correct? [ ... ]
That makes it simpler for a mapper to use their time well when surveying. Having visited several mapping parties away from my normal mapping area, this would have been very helpful to indicate areas that are "worth surveying". As compared to areas that were surveyed but not very interesting. There is also a commercial and marketing benefit. If you are providing services on top of the OpenStreetMap stack or if you want to promote the success of OpenStreetMap it is very helpful to be able to show a client or potential client the volume of checked data. > it make editing with josm a real pain. there are 2 solutions. delete > it on all ways as soon as data is downloaded to get rid of it Surely you aren't suggesting that you would falsify data that you submit to OpenStreetMap by claiming that you've checked it when you haven't? And you've missed at least two other solutions. - add this new tool to your mapping toolkit and continue to enjoy mapping. - ignore it as a "rendering quirk in josm." > or hack > the josm source. Sure. > both isn't too difficult for an experienced josm user but why should > anyone need to? As a single data point, my josm (both 1529 and 1546) does not display the yellow unchecked border. So you could run those. Best regards, Richard _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
