[OSM-newbies] Editing a gps trace

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 03:15, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Dave F. <davefox at madasafish.com> wrote:
>>
>> I once saw a way that was a footpath that went straight across a field,
>> but the unedited trace was so wibbley-wobbly (technical term) that it
>> looked like it was done by someone who was very drunk.
>>
>
> The problem I see more often is someone converts a trace, then just saves
> it, without making all the connections with other roads. I've seen it three
> times with bike paths now - a bike path with virtually no connections to any
> other roads, so completely useless for routing.

Both of those problems are trivial to fix and I've mass-fixed a lot of
those easily. It's much better to have data like that in the DB than
having none at all which is often the alternative if you make people
manually trace things.