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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Þann 29.7.2014 22:05, skrifaði Andreas
Labres:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On 29.07.14 22:32, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Map Notes are in my mind a to-do list obvious problems that require surveying
on the ground
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I disagree with this (principle idea). </pre>
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I disagree with your disagreement. <br>
<blockquote cite="mid:53D81AA3.7080307@al.lab.at" type="cite">But if
the names exist and are really missing because nobody ever looked
there
any closer, a Note expressing this doesn't help anything.<br>
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On the contrary. I'm grateful when a Note appears in Iceland stating
something similar in a region already with street names (as is the
case around this note I posted) because it is usually easy to find
out - sometimes its a new road and sometimes we just forgot to map
it.<br>
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It points out an obvious thing, an unnamed street amongst streets
with names.<br>
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I've been mapping Botswana remotely and many of the villages don't
even have proper streets but different sized paths and the smaller
ones don't have street names. I'm not posting Notes there about
missing street names because quite probably there aren't any or we
are unable to get the information until we get a local mapper
onboard.<br>
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Experienced mappers posting specifically worded Notes, for
themselves to fix later if possible or for others more knowledgable
to work on, sounds like good project management to me. If the note
doesn't get attended to for a couple of years it still doesn't lose
its validity, the streets will still be unnamed until we know
better. I've posted Notes at rivers saying "Continue drawing
upstream" and a couple of weeks later the note is resolved by a
mapper who was looking for something to do.<br>
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Notes make people have something to do, whether locally or remotely.
A person eager to help opens the editor and then thinks "now what?".
Notes help us in keeping casual mappers interested.<br>
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To quote the Notes feature "<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.99928092956543px; orphans:
auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float:
none; background-color: rgb(255, 224, 204);">Spotted a mistake or
something missing? Let other mappers know so we can fix it." </span>This
is verbatim.<br>
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-Jói<br>
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