John, Kathleen, thank you for this perspective I did not have. Yves
Le 29 juillet 2019 19:25:34 GMT+02:00, john whelan <[email protected]> a écrit : >I agree with Kathleen. Given that smartphones are more common than >internet connected computers and it is easier to add or change tags on >a >smartphone than add a long highway at least the locals stand more >chance >this way. > >Cheerio John > >On Mon, Jul 29, 2019, 1:00 PM Kathleen Lu via talk, ><[email protected]> >wrote: > >> On the other hand, if the map of your area is completely blank, it >looks >> very daunting to a new mapper, who may be discouraged and abandon OSM >> (either as too difficult to improve and as too poor quality to use). >> The map is constantly changing because roads and other things on the >map >> are changing in the real world. A city might close off a road and >then it >> will become a "bad" street. It's easier to delete a bad street than >to add >> a bunch of streets, especially when you are surveying on foot and >don't >> have a mouse. >> I personally would much rather have a 101% map than a 1% map. >> >> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 9:21 AM Joseph Eisenberg < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Re: "OSM map with a one percent of roads is far worse than having >101% >>> of the roads mapped with the help of AI with 1% of extras, because >>> fixing that 1% is far less work than adding 99% by hand" >>> >>> I'm not certain this is true. It might be very difficult to find the >>> 1% of incorrectly mapped roads; you don't know where to look, and >you >>> must survey on the ground with GPS, and check each road segment to >>> find the 1% that actually are blocked by a fence or gate or don't >>> really go through that clump of trees. >>> >>> In contrast, when 99% are missing it's very obvious when looking at >>> the map data. You still have to survey and add the streets, but it >may >>> actually be faster to get to a complete map of your home >neighborhood, >>> than trying to find 10 bad streets out of 1000 segments in your >>> neighborhood. >>> >>> Finally, when you look at the map and it looks 100% complete, you >>> won't see the need to start mapping and become a totally addicted >>> OSMer like you will if your village is only 1% mapped, so we may not >>> get the new contributors that we need to actual maintain the data >that >>> our robot mappers have added. >>> >>> Joseph >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> talk mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >>
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