<div dir="ltr">I was bored so I think I cleaned up most of the village. It's easy to see what the mapper really intended with some basic mapping experience and knowledge of how streets are normally placed. Of course a survey is needed for poi's, but it's not needed to change a strange way to the side at the end of a street into a turning circle. Also, the gps tracks seemed to align well enough to Bing.<div>
<br></div><div>I have never edited in Great Britain before so I hope I didn't step on any toes, but I have edited in southern Sweden since 2008 and before I started there was barely anything there...</div><div><br></div>
<div>/Andreas</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 3:55 AM, SomeoneElse <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@mail.atownsend.org.uk" target="_blank">lists@mail.atownsend.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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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 href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/41203129#map=19/53.23534/-0.61945" target="_blank">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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