Paul, I hope your truck is recovered in good condition.
My perception of Amazon edits is overwhelmingly positive. I see the same types of mistakes, but those mistakes are one the same level or less than traditional craft mappers. On the plus side, they are neatly solving the last mile mapping problem. They detect blocked / gated roads on a level not possible for 2 or 3 mappers covering hundreds of square miles. Based on gps / video surveying tracks, they are adding driveways - and having long driveways mapped is becoming increasingly useful for OSM general purpose navigation or analysis. I've been adding driveways from high quality off-leaf imagery, and leaving driveways out where the location is hidden. They have added a few driveways from surveys in those areas that were hidden by evergreen trees for example. My only problem with Amazon is that edits are randomly distributed over an area. The result is that the individual edits can mask a single case of vandalism or newbie stepping up to map. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
