[OSM-talk] WTF ! (about gps traces)

Shaun McDonald shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk
Sat May 3 17:08:05 BST 2008


On 3 May 2008, at 16:58, Sven Grüner wrote:

> Karl Newman schrieb:
>> Or maybe the tracks need a moderation/voting system. If the tracks  
>> are voted
>> down below a certain threshold, they won't be downloaded? Would  
>> need some
>> careful thought to prevent malicious voting down of good tracks,  
>> though.
>> Even if the editors had a way to hide certain tracks, that would be  
>> helpful.
>> I've seen a few low-quality tracks in my area that I would like to  
>> make go
>> away.
>
> The user could (optionally) specify this threshold when requesting  
> data.
> This way one could avoid bad tracks when enough good ones available  
> and
> fall back on the bad ones when there's no alternative.
>
> Alternatively a request would still return all Tracks but each track  
> is
> returned along with it's quality level so that the editors can blank  
> out
>  certain levels on demand.
>
> I believe that somewhere in the distant future when data maintenance
> becomes more important than data creation the track handling will
> improve dramatically.
>

  Talking of optional downloads, I'd like an option to not download  
any trace made before date x, within bounding box y due to the fact  
that there is a change in the road layout in the area.

Shaun





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