Clearly, your sample contained nuts.
On September 30, 2015 2:40:37 PM EDT, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: >On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org> wrote: >> >> Our OSM team cooked up something new. A missing roads plugin for >JOSM. I >> think it's pretty nice but I would really like to hear what you >think. >> > >Neat, has potential. > >You can read some more about it on my diary >(http://bit.ly/missingroads) >> but it's basically what it says on the tin. The plugin will show >where we >> think roads are missing from OSM based on GPS data so you can add >them :) >> > >Based on whose GPS data from where? I trust the source in this >question >is completely halal, kosher, gluten-free, vegan, organic, free-range, >all-natural data, but some of the output I'm getting from it is rather >odd. Take, for example, this screenshot in JOSM near node 148319848 ><http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/148319848#map=14/36.1758/-95.8591> >in my >neighborhood. > > > >Other than highlighting my own inadvertently selective blindness (what >with >having not mapped the large and aging chain link fence factory on the >northeast corner of the intersection; Brinks behind my favorite >QuikTrip ><http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/360912244#map=16/36.1769/-95.8668> >only >recently appeared on Bing), I do find two things remarkable about this >plugin's output: > > 1. It seems to have picked out an incomplete set based on the paths > relative to imagery. > 2. I have no way of being able to survey the exact location of the GPS >output from the plugin from the ground (it's inside a fence factory, >*of > course* it's fenced off!), so I can only assume the GPS was located on > one of those big diesel-powered forklifts. > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Talk-us mailing list >Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Typos courtesy of fancy auto-spell technology.
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