-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
On 06.12.2013 22:51, Richard Welty wrote: > i'm thinking maybe we need an agreed upon way of marking these > areas so that the usual editors (id, potlatch2, josm) can flag > them as places where aerial imagery is out of date. I have lost track of the various initiatives to record aerial imagery offsets but what you are asking for here is very similar - a note to users of a certain aerial imagery source in a certain area, that should ideally be popped up by the editor once the user gives the impression of wanting to work in that area and has the imagery in question on screen. The simplest and most generic of these suggestions was to simply place nodes with a specific tagging somewhere in the general area for the editor to pick up and warn the user or auto-adjust aerial imagery. The disadvantage obviously being that you'll miss the note if your edit area doesn't include it, and that the database gets polluted with meta objects (cf. discussion about "aerial imagery boundary" objects). This could be improved to allow "remarks" that cover whole areas and not only points (and btw. it needn't even be aerial imagery related - once established, people might even put it to (mis?)use by drawing a rectangle that pops up a message "mapping party here next weekend, contact [email protected]", and/or a different server could be used for such meta data. A few months ago, Zverik launched a small project that would allow you to chat with nearby other mappers active in the same area - technologically it should be very easy to piggyback some generic "area related messaging" function onto that because it already implements the "editor sends area being edited to server, server checks if others are in the same area and sends back a notify message" bit. A very interesting field that, if done well, can make mapping much more collaborative (you may say "social" if you're so inclined) than it is now! I'm not sure why none of the aerial imagery offset correction ideas has really established itself yet; I fear the process might have been over engineered and the perfect is the enemy of the good. Bye Frederik - -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSonjuAAoJEOx/uhGAJu9HwaYH/RybYdgMeiWDI5yarwcU2Cli 3KMi6WZPtuooA6JHcAogETjShewwxx6wj/0vik6q3YBoVW6T9xuQehhiTqt6dtgE z5T8pDOWD89byuPQFhLwsYT3izj9i04gnjK/v4qjfqp4dxbbhJoHTQWwP8ZxDpfV owqgLAQFGK8GkmSXL44Zt03VoqhZEjypEfK/wRS1Rc6+sOKiHUSgzs6gM3YiFFBa QLqpP82OC8gOCDSmI/Z0i9wJy5uY62sjGRogPy5LLSsh0B/46GfcuuKw8UoFDGj2 HRw4yK0Nczoo6Ynaa+TOV9IRuDe95bZp2eCpULzEsn/nvdgk5QdVeAgdJOZUi4Y= =GMnf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
