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On 20/02/2011 09:36, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
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type="cite"><font size="2" face="Default Sans
Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">>Could it be
because not many people use it?<br>
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>I still don't understand why, in a collaborative project,
that osmbugs is used as a record to get other people to amend
missing items <br>
<br>
>"Feel free to put the modifications you would like to see on
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/">OpenStreetMap</a>
on the map."<br>
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>That is from the front page. To me, it goes against the way
OSM is meant to work; if you want to see modifications to OSM
then do it yourselves.<br>
<br>
>Much more useful is the likes of Keepright which can flag up
fixme tags.><br>
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If you get the time!!! <br>
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I agree; I'm also always running out of time...<br>
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Say you're out on a walk and you don't map every single footpath
in the area on that day, and, because it's a long way away,
you're unlikely to go back there.<br>
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Or, you notice something missing reasonably close to you but
never get out there.<br>
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...which is why I use the fixme or note tag *within* the OSM
database to flag things I don't complete.<br>
<br>
<br>
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Or, you're mapping somewhere and want to know what's missing.<br>
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The likes of LookRight already do this from data direct within the
database. <br>
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