[Talk-gb-midanglia] High volume changes round Cambridge

[Mark Williamson]

Well, I guess if they're being made less accurate then they need reverting to 
fix that but I agree it's best to contact him politely first and explain things 
- it'd be a shame to put off a new user, especially one who seems to be working 
quite hard.

Also, the fact that the Yahoo imagery is misaligned is not immediately obvious 
to a new contributor (would actually be good if Potlatch could proactively 
warn you about that and tell you how to realign it, as it is quite important!) 
and I know I made the mistake of moving a few ways to align better with Yahoo 
when I first started (embarassing, oops!).

Cheers,
Mark

On Tuesday 23 December 2008 11:08:53 Simon Daw wrote:
> This seems like a good opportunity to introduce myself! I've been
> doing some editing for about three months now, mainly around the
> Halstead area, and joined the group a while back. I've been meaning to
> make contact, but time has been short. Anyway, hello!
>
> The user you mention has also been changing roads in the Colchester
> area, some of which I'd edited / created accurately. Quite annoying.
> He's also been altering roads from "unclassified" to "tertiary", even
> when the road is singletrack, or, in at least one case, no longer
> exists (it was marked on the old 1940s OS map, but there's certainly
> no road there now)! As you say, David, he's editing roads he clearly
> doesn't know using sources which are often less reliable than those
> he's "correcting".
>
> I thought about contacting him myself, but I'm very inexperienced at
> this and didn't want to start preaching to users who have more
> knowledge than me. However, I'd have thought you're right about
> reverting the changes.
>
> Best wishes for a Happy Christmas,
>
> Simon Daw
>
> 2008/12/23 David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com>:
> > A previously unknown used 'ratarsed' has made changes to nearly every
> > road around Cambridge (nearly 600 edits yesterday) and looks like
> > working in towards the middle. I think what he's doing is tweaking
> > everything with the Yahoo images (which don't go in to the highest zoom).
> >
> > I think this blind, bulk editing is likely to disturb ground survey data
> > and break things. It may, in some cases, improve accuracy, but because
> > you can't zoom in enough on the Yahoo data (in Potlatch at least), I am
> > not convinced. At the least, it seems an unnecessary waste of time and
> > almost certainly will result in introducing some errors because you
> > can't see the detail well enough on the satellite.
> >
> > I'd like to revert all these edits. What do you think?
> >
> > I've sent a message to him to confirm that's what he's doing.
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> >
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