[OSM-talk-be] Lost property: one forest, messages, Bing

[Renaud MICHEL]

Hello
Le lundi 12/11/2012 14:55:00 A.Pirard.Papou a écrit :
> While dealing with borders, I discovered this unidentified multipolygon
> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/150921> fortuitously.
> Then I loaded the members and I found landuse = forest on one, that
> makes it correct on the map.
> Isn't landuse = forest supposed to be tagged on the relation instead?
> 
> I've never been able to contact Renaud Michel on various subjects.

That's me, I generally answer the messages I receive via OSM, I just checker 
and I had forgotten one (3 months ago), but I don't think it was from you.

> To send an e-mail to someone, I must fill a web form asking her?/him to
> reply so that I know his e-mail address to which I send my e-mail (not
> only OSM).
> Does anybody know when someone will invent a Web button next to the form
> to do that automatically, or do I miss something?
> 
> One of my messages is to beware of Bing.
> At higher (closer) zooms, it may have in some places an erroneous offset
> <http://www.google.be/search?&q=bing+offset+%28higher+OR+lower%29+zoom>.
> I think that the lower zooms are always the correct ones.
> JOSM allows to set an offset to compensate.

I know, but I have compared bing image position with GPS traces and, at 
least near Liège, it is quite accurate (to a few meters).
Actually, the old yahoo images that were used some years ago were a lot less 
accurate And I had to reposition them according to (my and other's) 
GPS traces.

cheers
-- 
Renaud Michel