On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]> wrote:
> there is a guy in Germany who has been tracing a lot of Indian cities - > although I am a bit ambivalent about the results. Sure, the roads *are* being > traced, but without names and also with guesses as to the road type. I > sometimes wonder whether it is easier to delete and remap this than to > correct what is done. I feel it is better to stick to mapping rivers, lakes > and other features than to map roads without being familiar with the area. I'm am also a bit unsure. But having an initial draft of the roads in the DB does have some advantages. Then can you survey with a mobile device or a printed copy of the map and know how where to look for unnamed streets. And gosmore may use a thoroughfare that locals are not used to, forcing them to investigate. Frederik's idea of the current DB being a placeholder for the "final" DB. IMHO roads (even unnamed roads) are much more valuable than rivers, railway lines and building outlines. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
