It's probably worth pointing out that the tiles Craigslist is using are pretty out of date. For example, they don't show the buildings in Chicago that were imported a couple of months ago. Hopefully Craigslist users won't get too frustrated when the problems they point out don't appear to be fixed immediately.
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Toby Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Clifford Snow <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Richard Welty <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> ok, i found "report a problem" on the map view for housing units >>> in an area. i'll have to go find a map problem and report it via the >>> GUI so i can see the full cycle. >>> >> >> I only found two notes for the Greater Seattle area. (Lucky me?) >> One anonymous reported a business name. The other looked like a mapper that >> was just saying that the tiger road data was sucky. (it was.) It would be >> nice to have the note say the source, i.e. craigslist, osm, routing >> program. That might give more clues to the problem. Plus it would give us >> data if we decided that the reports are useless and needed to modify the >> API. >> > > Well as I said all craigslist notes will start with the words "bounds" and > a coordinate pair. But yes the thought had occurred to me that a created_by > tag like we have on changesets might actually be useful for notes, > especially when being created by 3rd party sites like craigslist. I brought > the idea up in #osm-dev and it didn't seem to get a good reception but I > may try again now that someone is actually using the feature externally. > > Toby > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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