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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hello all,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">When I discovered openstreetmap in august 2008, I rapidly joined the community. I like helping with improving maps at disaster areas around the world. I was able to do that for Haiti a little over a year ago, because not much was mapped there yet. I humbly consider myself moderately experienced and work with the brilliant JOSM package.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I'm terrible at using mailing lists though, am more of a forum guy, but here I am anyway:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">What I did so far in the Sendai area of Japan was not more then mostly tracing a couple of riverbanks with the small patch of bing high res imagery there (</FONT><A HREF="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Hans%20van%20Wijk/edits"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Hans%20van%20Wijk/edits</FONT></U></A><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">), but like to do more. I noticed lots of objects from 'MLIT, Japan'. Unfortunately they look like being more or less obsoleted by the far better bing imagery. The question is: May I alter them and even delete them if necessary? I'm having a hard time deciding that for myself. A good example is the natural=wood patches on Shichigahama. </FONT><A HREF="http://osm.org/go/7TQ3Q03h"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://osm.org/go/7TQ3Q03h</FONT></U></A><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">--</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The coastline is a mix between natural=coastline and boundary=administrative. Ideally they should be separate, or not? I like to also adjust the coastline, but then I also move the boundary, which is unwanted I assume, right?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Also, I need some reassuring: am I doing some good here?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hoping to here from you!</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Best regards,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hans van Wijk</FONT>
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