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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2014-07-04 15:00, Marc Gemis wrote :<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 2:41 PM, André
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">It's a pity to see
so little routes in Wallonia, to see the existing ones
poorly documented and to claim that OSM wants that
despite its "do it as you like with fuzziness" basic
principle.<br>
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One of the principles of OSM is that you can verify "in the
field" whether something is true or not. This is not possible
for "invented" hikes. As soon as the "inventor of the
walk/hike" disappears, the truth is gone as well.</div>
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Aha? And how then can you verify boundaries "in the field" (all the
sorts of boundaries that exist)?<br>
I'm quite interested in photographs.<br>
They are just as "invented" as hikes and most inventors are dead for
long, starting 1794, even up to 1600.<br>
Verify what truth? The same kind of information remains as for a
hike GPX trace or OSM route.<br>
BTW, it looks like they lost the GPX trace of <a
href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe_Colomb#Le_premier_voyage_.281492-1493.29">Columbus'
trip to America</a> ;-)<br>
But they're still <a
href="http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/data/images/1313435-Le_premier_voyage_de_Christophe_Colomb_1492-1493.jpg">pretty
sure about it</a> ;-)<br>
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But I'm not very interested in mapping hikes, because we live a very
regrettable situation.<br>
They sell OSM based Medion GPS but the access and routing tags are
full of mistakes, the OSM contributors laugh at themselves about
that, and even publicly laugh at me for sounding enthusiastic about
OSM GPS.<br>
On the other hand, normalizing GPX hiking trails, that is making
them follow OSM ways, is something that could be done very easily
but is not. Instead, applications use the raw GPX traces made by the
hikers with which you must piddle where the author did ;-)<br>
For OSM GPS, what exists does not work and what could work
beautifully does not exist.<br>
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