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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>I totally agree. </FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>A map is basically a drawing, so the most important thing is the shape of the ways themselves. I would sooner say that the trivial part is adding the place-names.</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>De:</B> talk-bounces@openstreetmap.org en nombre de Steve Hill<BR><B>Enviado el:</B> mar 06/05/2008 11:28<BR><B>Para:</B> Andy Allan<BR><B>CC:</B> osm Talk<BR><B>Asunto:</B> Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Road crossings proposal - status?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>On Tue, 6 May 2008, Andy Allan wrote:<BR><BR>> [2] Another brilliant example of how people make themselves feel<BR>> useful by doing the trivially easy bit, c.f. tracing from Yahoo with<BR>> no intention of naming the roads.<BR><BR>I'm just going to voice an opinion (feel free to ignore it :) - putting<BR>roads on the map by any means (e.g. wandering with a GPS, tracing Yahoo,<BR>etc) is always very useful, even if one doesn't name the roads:<BR><BR>1. If you're doing something like route planning, you don't need to know<BR>all the names of the roads - just knowing that you can get from A to B via<BR>this road is useful (although some information about the quality of the<BR>road is required so you don't direct HGVs up a tiny 1-track lane :)<BR><BR>2. If the road is on the map it becomes much easier for people who are<BR>familiar with the area to fill in the details such as the name - no<BR>equipment is needed (such as GPS), they don't need to get off their<BR>backside and go out to walk/drive the road and there is next to no effort<BR>in putting a name on a road if you know the area. I can see that in many<BR>cases, _users_ (i.e. people who just want a map and would otherwise<BR>just be using Google) might be happy to add names when using the map<BR>themselves, but aren't going to spend the time and effort tracing roads<BR>from Yahoo themselves (for one thing this involves somewhat more<BR>experience with how OSM works than just adding a name).<BR><BR>Chris Jones (who runs the Welsh language OSM) has been working on an AJAX<BR>thing to make fixing road names easy without having to understand the<BR>editors - I see this as a really good thing since it gets more people<BR>contributing to the project, but it does require that the roads themselves<BR>are in the database.<BR><BR> - Steve<BR> xmpp:steve@nexusuk.org sip:steve@nexusuk.org <A href="http://www.nexusuk.org/">http://www.nexusuk.org/</A><BR><BR> Servatis a periculum, servatis a maleficum - Whisper, Evanescence<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>talk mailing list<BR>talk@openstreetmap.org<BR><A href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk</A><BR></FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>