2009/10/7 DavidD <[email protected]>: > 2009/10/6 John Smith <[email protected]>: > >> Yes and keep it to yourself, don't bother telling anyone else since >> they really want to waste their time finding out there is no name,a >> after the 10th person does this I'm sure someone has a right to be >> upset. > > If you have 10 people in the same area chasing an unnamed road then a > noname tag isn't going to solve the actual problem. A road in OSM that > has been surveyed by a single person is tagged identically to a road > that has a dozen gps tracks and has been checked by several people. > The fact that a road has no name is irrelevant. A road with a name is > also potentially incorrect and needs to be checked. > Currently those 10 people will end up checking the same areas multiple > times while some areas don't get checked at all. The problem is that > there is no way to communicate the "verification level" or an object > in the database. If the 10 people want to verify the data in an > efficient and systematic way then they they need to organise between > themselves and store information outside the database. It's a problem > that needs a general solution not a single tag that works in a very > specific case.
That's assuming they aren't just doing this as a side thing as they travel about, potentially going out of their way to get the name of a street that has no name or no street sign, so communicating that is important beyond any local grouping. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
