[talk-au] Mini Roundabouts.
Ross Scanlon
info at 4x4falcon.com
Fri Apr 30 01:47:07 BST 2010
> 1) They're clearly mini roundabouts. I go straight over them on my bike.
They are concrete circles from Nearmap as far as I can tell.
> 2) The roads you've mapped out don't even follow the aerial photos -
> they cut across people's front lawns.
Must have missed resizing these lot done now and I did not map any of the other roads they were alread there.
> 3) Why an octagon shape? Ugh. At least use the "tidy" function in JOSM
> or Potlatch to make them circles.
An octagon is the smallest number of nodes to accurately describe a circle. And they have been tidied using JOSM's circle function.
> My mind is blown that you would spend hours of your time doing this.
> There are thousands of more productive things you could be doing. I
> was about to start converting a couple into mini_roundabouts when I
> suddenly twigged why they were there.
Having just spent 3 months on the road collecting over 9000km's of gps traces which have already been incorporated into osm, due to problems with our vehcile we've got 6 months of while we wait for repairs so how I spend that time is totally up to me.
> Sorry to rant, but...why...why...?
Cause I can.
> Steve
>
Cheers
Ross
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