[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Personal Survey Points

[Philip Barnes]

On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 15:50 +0100, Big Fat Frog wrote:
> Thanks Gregory and Andy for your feedback.  You're right, next day I got 
> a different result but only about 2 or 3 metres out.
> 
> I long been convinced that the arial imagery is out and I've read as 
> such elsewhere but if I use an offset then my changes are at odds with 
> the the bulk of what others have done.
> 
> So which is the yardstick?  Imagery, accurate survey points or something 
> else? Also, if you beleive you have a hyper accurate surevy point, then 
> shouldn't that be uploaded to OSM?

+1
I think they should. Am not certain if there are tags for things like
benchmarks and trigpoints, but there really should be.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benchmark_%28surveying%29

My first post in Talk-West-Midlands, I tend to follow the group but as I
am based in deepest darkest Shropshire, the meet ups tend to be a bit
far away.

Phil (trig222)