Consider slightly offsetting each level. Add a note saying
slightly-offset-from-level-below.

Sharing nodes between vertical layers is certainly wrong.

Richard


On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 9:31 PM, SomeoneElse <li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk>wrote:

> Rob Nickerson wrote:
>
>>
>> Am I doing something wrong? Is the fixer tool flagging something up
>> incorrectly?
>>
>
> In cases such as this I normally say to the other mapper that I was last
> there on so-and-so date, and when I was last there it looked like X; and
> ask whether perhaps he's been there more recently and the geometry's
> changed?
>
> Personally I believe that the various QA tools do an excellent job, but
> it'd be simply impossible to miss all the false negatives and not catch
> some false positives - it has to be up to the mapper to decide what's a
> real issue and what's not.
>
> (begin rant)
>
> I wish more of the people doing these remote corrections would actually
> talk to the person who did the original mapping in the first place.
>  Perhaps the way was drawn by a new mapper who actually has lots of
> questions about how to do things, but doesn't know who or where to ask.
>  Maybe it's a mistake by someone who's been mapping for a while (we all
> still make them!), in which the best person to correct the error is surely
> a person who's been there rather than a person who hasn't.
>
> In some cases it does make sense to correct remotely (perhaps
> non-connecting footpaths that match GPS traces that were drawn by a mapper
> who hasn't been seen since 2009 would be an example), but in many cases I
> would argue that it doesn't.
>
> (end rant)
>
> As an interesting aside, what I've found myself doing more frequently
> recently is revisiting places that I'd mapped previously that had been
> subsequently "armchaired".  In almost all cases what resulted from a
> resurvey wasn't exactly the same as from the original, but slightly more
> nuanced and with a lot more detail - revisiting isn't necessarily a bad
> thing.  Still, it can be annoying to have to go back and resurvey an area
> because someone has "corrected" it to look like an old Bing photo, prompted
> by a false positive on a QA site.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
>
>
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