[talk-au] Hi all ...

Delta Foxtrot delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 17 13:22:12 BST 2009


--- On Wed, 17/6/09, Dan O'Hara <ohara5 at homemail.com.au> wrote:
> I have two immediate questions
> (actually I have a lot but
> these have been preying on my mind as a result of my
> breach).  When you go
> to an attraction, be it an outdoor winery/farm tour or say,
> fun park or caravan
> park, are the tracks worthwhile to trace into OSM? 

The more data the better, even if it isn't displayed on the main website, there is a bunch of 3rd party mapping sites that plot the data differently, like they spatialise in hiking or biking trails rather than roads etc.

> Secondly, and
> unrelated to the first question … if tracks you place
> end up being
> radically different to the established map should you just
> stop at the track
> and not trace so others can see your green/blue track or
> should you put in a
> potentially conflicting trace? I am (slowly) gaining
> knowledge in some of the
> less obvious screens to see who placed what trace where
> but, for the same
> technical reasons as above I can not “view”
> maps on OSM so this has
> not been easy. 

De ju vu... :)

http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/2009-June/001704.html


      




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