I also agree that putting notes in the tags are helpful to some of us that are armchair mappers. I will see the tags sooner than the history data. I tend to map around railroads using the imagery and Tiger data and tags. -Nathan
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Martijn van Exel <[email protected]> wrote: > That is a great point and something I feel strongly about, having > created armchair mapper's tools like Battle Grid and Maproulette. > > I will make some time to put in a warning notice into these tools that > would pop up the first time folks use it. What would a good, concise, > cautionary note look like? > > On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Richard Welty <[email protected]> > wrote: > > if you see a discrepancy between aerial imagery and OSM, before you > > go adding/changing stuff, check on the history of the stuff that's there > > and see if another mapper has worked on things recently (for some > > value of recently.) i have done a bunch of work in the past month > > adding in a new traffic circle on US 4 in Rensselaer County, NY, > > using GPS traces. as part of the process, i removed a slip ramp > > from I-90 that was taken out by DOT when they built the new > > circle. i just now discovered that another mapper added the slip > > ramp back in, presumably because it's in the Bing imagery, which > > is at this point 2 or 3 years old. > > > > this isn't the first time i've been through this; a year or so back > > a couple of armchair mappers repeatedly changed a part of Troy > > to match obsolete imagery and i kept having to ask them not to > > and put back in the recent changes. i now put README tags on > > the ways but if i delete something i have no place to put a > > README tag. > > > > imagery goes out of date. armchair mappers must never forget > > that. if the imagery doesn't match the map, contact a local mapper > > if you can identify one. you could be fixing something that wasn't > > actually broken. > > > > thanks, > > richard > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-us mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > > > > > -- > Martijn van Exel > http://oegeo.wordpress.com/ > http://openstreetmap.us/ > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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