[Talk-GB] Somerset Levels Flooding

[John Baker]

> Define "slow" for a printed atlas? Should we be pulping them each
> minute? Day? Week?
Printed atlas!? So insensitive I carry a globe around.
I wonder however what about the providers that do want update their data, say, daily are at a disadvantage if we don't mark these cases.
Hence why I suggested maybe a month or so in this broken state maybe we should edit. These parameters will vary between mappers but a threshold maybe we could agree open here. Maybe some still consider estimated 1 year bridge closures is not long enough to consider updating the map.
Also maybe it should have more weight to the mapper local to the area (hence your Putney example).  And/or how quick it will be monitored and updated.*Shrug* 

> Unless, of course, there are people who are deliberately looking for> an argument...
> 
;-)

> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 12:52:16 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Somerset Levels Flooding
> From: gravitystorm at gmail.com
> To: rovastar at hotmail.com
> CC: lorp at lorp.org; talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
> 
> On 7 February 2014 12:37, John Baker <rovastar at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Always to play the devils advocate.....
> >
> > We have all heard about "mapping for the renderer" but are you "mapping for
> > the third party data providers that is slow at updating the planet data".
> 
> Define "slow" for a printed atlas? Should we be pulping them each
> minute? Day? Week?
> 
> > I think we all have different opinions on this (it will likely take months
> > for the work to be done at least 6 weeks was the latest I heard this
> > morning) and don't we pride ourselves about having the most up-to-date
> > information and what is on the ground?!
> 
> There's a difference between providing up-to-date data, and being
> unnecessarily misleading. For example, there's a section of the A82 on
> Loch Lomond that was only one lane wide, and controlled by traffic
> lights. It was marked as two-way, but at any one instant it is, of
> course, one-way. Should we have marked it as one-way and flipped the
> direction every 90 seconds? Of course not. Should remove a railway
> line when it's closed for overnight engineering works? Is a field
> flooded for a week now a lake?
> 
> > Permanent versus temporary is very subjective and people will have different
> > opinions.
> 
> As with anything. But I suspect that a sensible group of people will
> come to a sensible answer in every case. In the two at hand, the
> railway is still a railway, and the Levels are fields, not lakes.
> 
> Unless, of course, there are people who are deliberately looking for
> an argument...
> 
> Cheers,
> Andy
 		 	   		  
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