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<div style="16px" text-align="left">Mar 3, 2019, 5:09 PM by rwelty@averillpark.net:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">we've talked about this before, i guess we will never stop talking about it.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">i recently noticed in my OSMAnd display that an error got put back<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">into the map about 1 mile from where i live. a short dead end<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">was put in as a residential road (it's really an unnamed driveway)<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">based on NYS GIS data. i removed it years ago (it was in tiger 2007).<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">(...)<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">what can/should we be doing about this sort of stuff? i'm really<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">at a bit of a loss here.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">When I remove things visible in aerial images or other high quality sources<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I often leave geometry with note.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">For example on removed power tower (I made edit as crane lowered it,<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I just happened to be looking at it outside window) I changed<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">power=tower node<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">to<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">note="power tower visible on aerial images was removed on <DATE>"<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">survey_date=<DATE><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">to keep people from remapping it based on high quality aerial images available for my area.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">---<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I also don't make risky armchair edit in areas with active local mappers.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">---<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Is "NYS GIS data" something that can be considered nearly error free? If not then <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">it should not be used for edits without verification with at least high-quality aerial imaged<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">and this mapper should be reminded about it.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">If yes then leaving geometry with note is a good idea.<br></div> </body>
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