[talk-au] Openstreetmap Quality Issues

Neil Penman neilpenman at gmail.com
Sat Oct 19 00:20:46 UTC 2013


There used to be a view that Openstreetmap could produce higher quality
maps through local knowledge so we could eliminate the sort of comical
routing errors that would have people driving into rivers.  Unfortunately
the culture seems to have become that  any accurate local mapping should be
replaced with unthinking tracing over the top of obsolete satellite
imagery.

Twice I have updated this intersection
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/-37.10566/144.33590 to reflect the
major changes that happened after the freeway was completed.  Twice those
changes have been removed by "mappers" tracing over the top of the old
satellite imagery.  Oh well at least its the same as google maps now!

regards

Neil

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