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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 23/08/2014 02:03, Dave F. wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">... Of course you need local
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I'm not convinced that that's always the case. For example,
"to-fix" has just taken me here:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/41203129#map=19/53.23534/-0.61945">http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/41203129#map=19/53.23534/-0.61945</a><br>
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Whilst I'm no fan of "armchair mapping", you don't even need any
background imagery to see a couple of problems there (the "doubling
back way" and the kink in the road at the right, which is what
"to-fix" spotted). In this case it looks like that road has been
drawn by an inexperienced mapper, back when there were far fewer
opportunities to spot new problems like this as they arose (and
before any kind of decent background imagery was available).<br>
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Whilst it's certainly possible for people to get "overenthusiastic"
with QA site results, like with the "imaginery footpath creator" in
the UK recently, and often QA sites report errors because what's
there is just wrong (as well as geometrically impossible) and a
survey is needed to sort it out, in this case that simply isn't an
issue. That village probably has more than just a pub and a shop as
POIs, and would certainly benefit from a survey (which it might get
from me; I've done villages within a couple of miles of there), but
would in the mean time benefit from the basic geometry fixes.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Andy<br>
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