Joseph Reeves wrote: > Sorry, but I find this to be a really negative attitude; there's loads > of people that want to draw a line on the map for the first time, but > less who want to tidy existing streets, or "just" add POIs. What would > be wrong, for example, with collecting the first GPS trace of a road? > Arguably this is much more important than the first tracing of the > same road from Bing.
The thing I hate about getting in discussions on here is that I always end up sounding more hard-line than I really am. I certainly wouldn't discourage someone from having a go and tracing something from imagery to try their hand at OSM - in fact I would encourage it. As for collecting the first GPS trace - fantastic! I agree that not everyone wants to collect every single POI when they map a road (and I don't either). I am not trying to say that a local mapper being put off going somewhere should necessarily be a reason not to do something, I am simply saying it is something worth being aware of. Sorry if you find it negative. It was more that I have very limited time to devote to OSM,and had several possibilities for massive local chunks of things missing from the map. I could have chosen to do the country lanes I had planned, but that now seemed lower priority than some of the other things I wanted to get done. I can see why you thought the mapper who contacted you arrogant, because he sent you a rude email. I did not do that to the tracer in my case. If I had contacted him/her, I would have been polite and assumed good faith. I think rude or angry emails flying around between mappers do far more damage to the project than remote tracing ever has! Personally I do think it is a sensible rule of thumb in most cases to either have a little bit of knowledge of an area you are tracing or a plan to visit, but I accept that there are always exceptions, and this is far from the only consideration you need to weigh up. But thanks to all who have posted some opposing perspectives. I had not consider all of these perspectives. Cheers David -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Bing-maps-is-misplaced-tp5811671p5818774.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
