[talk-au] Snapping Major regional roads to GPS traces

[Simon Poole]

Am 16.05.2021 um 06:58 schrieb Bob Cameron:
> ...
>
> - I am surprised by the suggestion to fix the overhead imagery 
> instead. I would have assumed that OSM/ID editor references another 
> website via an API by co-ordinates etc and any error correction of 
> tiles would be on that site, not OSM's? Is there really an offsets 
> database in use? I would expect that it would be far more important to 
> fix errors in densely populated areas before rural/sparse ones though.
> ...

Your out of luck with iD, however JOSM, Vespucci and more support the 
Imagery Offset Database. You don't -have- to use it, iD will allow you 
to adjust the imagery on the fly (just as the other editors), but it is 
painful in that you might have to redo the work time and time again.

See http://offsets.textual.ru/


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