Hello Dermot and Steve, Perhaps one solution would be to make a tool that downloads a few reference tiles in the target area and then store the MD5 signatures. Subsequent runs of the tool will check the hashes and generate beeps, emails or tweets asking a human to check the offsets. And the tool should be easy to write because it can work on either the compressed images or a screen capture of an editor.
Regards, Nic On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 2:52 AM, Dermot McNally <derm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18 February 2011 23:35, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Ok, I think you're probably right. One thing that would mitigate the >> situation I was talking about would be if OSM editors display the >> current offset somewhere on the screen. Maybe a little red arrow >> pointing in the appropriate direction (and perhaps length indicating >> the distance of the offset). > > Hmm, not bad - that is, at any stage that the imagery has been moved > from its default position, there would be a subtle but visible > indicator? That fits in pretty well with our underlying goals with > True Offset, to make sure no mapper traces without realising that > alignment is sometimes wrong, must be considered and can be changed. > > That suggestion, of course, would need to be taken up by the authors > of each editor. > > Cheers, > Dermot > > > -- > -------------------------------------- > Igaühel on siin oma laul > ja ma oma ei leiagi üles > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
