2009/9/28 Mark Williams <[email protected]>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > [email protected] wrote: >> I've been thinking a bit about this from a very different perspective - that >> of parks and other open public areas where you might not have a chance to >> walk the perimeter ... for instance, you've a dog who really doesn't want >> that boring walk around the edge, but bobs and weaves all about the space >> and this might be one of only a couple of potential visits you might be able >> to make to the site. I think that an accumulation of unordered points over >> time either by one person or multiple people who capture GPS information >> _incidentally_ would be useful in defining the core of the public (or >> private, in the case of tractors on farmland) space. There's no need to >> gather tracks, merely points. Let the accumulation of points define the >> space. This is something of a corollary to the notion of "wisdom of the >> crowd" and it can be seen in action in the United States on major >> thoroughfares, such as the interstate highways, where the accumulation of >> multiple tracks over time can be u > sed to define a way. >> >> user id on openstreemap = ceyockey >> >> ________ > > If I'm out walking with the dogs, I tend to not go near the edge UNLESS > I'm mapping, because they won't crawl under hedges if I'm already a fair > way off, but will do so happily if it doesn't take them far. I suspect > I'm not the only one, so you'd end up with a ludicrously fat hedge. > > I also tend not to go into corners & will often stop a little before the > end of a field. > > Mark
I think this is a case of "Better to have a park with a ludicrously fat hedge than no hedge, or field at all. With average GPS only giving an accuracy of around 10-50 meters its not going to be far out anyway. Peter. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
