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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div>> Define "slow" for a printed atlas? Should we be pulping them each<br>> minute? Day? Week?</div><div><br></div><div>Printed atlas!? So insensitive I carry a globe around.</div><div><br></div><div>I wonder however what about the providers that do want update their data, say, daily are at a disadvantage if we don't mark these cases.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hence why I suggested maybe a month or so in this broken state maybe we should edit. These parameters will vary between mappers but a threshold maybe we could agree open here. Maybe some still consider estimated 1 year bridge closures is not long enough to consider updating the map.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Also maybe it should have more weight to the mapper local to the area (hence your Putney example). And/or how quick it will be monitored and updated.*Shrug* </span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">> Unless, of course, there are people who are deliberately looking for</span></div><div><div>> an argument...<br>> </div><div><br></div><div>;-)<br><br><div>> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 12:52:16 +0000<br>> Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Somerset Levels Flooding<br>> From: gravitystorm@gmail.com<br>> To: rovastar@hotmail.com<br>> CC: lorp@lorp.org; talk-gb@openstreetmap.org<br>> <br>> On 7 February 2014 12:37, John Baker <rovastar@hotmail.com> wrote:<br>> > Always to play the devils advocate.....<br>> ><br>> > We have all heard about "mapping for the renderer" but are you "mapping for<br>> > the third party data providers that is slow at updating the planet data".<br>> <br>> Define "slow" for a printed atlas? Should we be pulping them each<br>> minute? Day? Week?<br>> <br>> > I think we all have different opinions on this (it will likely take months<br>> > for the work to be done at least 6 weeks was the latest I heard this<br>> > morning) and don't we pride ourselves about having the most up-to-date<br>> > information and what is on the ground?!<br>> <br>> There's a difference between providing up-to-date data, and being<br>> unnecessarily misleading. For example, there's a section of the A82 on<br>> Loch Lomond that was only one lane wide, and controlled by traffic<br>> lights. It was marked as two-way, but at any one instant it is, of<br>> course, one-way. Should we have marked it as one-way and flipped the<br>> direction every 90 seconds? Of course not. Should remove a railway<br>> line when it's closed for overnight engineering works? Is a field<br>> flooded for a week now a lake?<br>> <br>> > Permanent versus temporary is very subjective and people will have different<br>> > opinions.<br>> <br>> As with anything. But I suspect that a sensible group of people will<br>> come to a sensible answer in every case. In the two at hand, the<br>> railway is still a railway, and the Levels are fields, not lakes.<br>> <br>> Unless, of course, there are people who are deliberately looking for<br>> an argument...<br>> <br>> Cheers,<br>> Andy<br></div></div></div></div> </div></body>
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