[OSM-newbies] Trust Yahoo or OSM?

[Habib Habib]

Thank you guys for your answers.

As for my original problem, I noticed that streets were aligned with Yahoo
images while buildings are not, therefore I assumed that buildings are
wrongly placed.

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Aspen Swartz <aspendel at gmail.com> wrote:

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> > Message: 10
> > Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:18:11 -0600
> > From: James Ewen <ve6srv at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Trust Yahoo or OSM?
> > To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
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> > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 4:54 PM, David Ellams
> > <osmlists at dellams.fastmail.fm> wrote:
> >
> >>> The aerial photos can be displaced slightly. Potlatch has a built in
> >>> facility for moving the background photo to align it to the real
> >>> world.
> >>
> >> Sorry, I am not clear - are you saying Potlatch will allow you to move
> >> the Yahoo photography from its default position? If so, please could you
> >> let me know how, as I cannot see an option.
> >
> > Go to http://www.openstreetmap.org in your browser. Zoom in to level
> > 13 or better so that the edit button becomes available. Click on edit,
> > and then select either "Edit Live", or "Edit with Save". Once you have
> > Potlatch running, on the bottom of the screen is a button that has the
> > word "Help" on it. Click that button, and a help screen opens up. On
> > the top of the help screen, click on the word "Surveying". The last
> > paragraph under "Using Satellite Photos" describes the process for
> > shifting the photos against the map.
> >
> > While you have the help screen open, take a bit of time to read the
> > information provided. Potlatch is actually a collection of fairly
> > powerful tools, and information on how to access those tools is
> > available in the help file.
> >
> > Now, you are probably thinking that it would have been much easier to
> > simply say "Hold down "Space", and drag the background", but I'm
> > hoping you and others will actually take the time to read the help
> > file rather than keep asking those who have read the help file to
> > regurgitate it for you. Richard went to the trouble to create the help
> > file, the least we can do is read it.
> >
> > It's the old "Teach a man to fish" adage...
> >
> > The real short answer would have been RTFHP. 8)
> >
> > James
> > VE6SRV
> >
>
> Thank you, that was very clear and just the sort of learning I signed
> up to the newbies list for.
>
> Aspen (eulochon)
>
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