[Talk-GB] New users and P2

[David Woolley]

On 25/02/16 17:04, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
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> User can also enter relevant POIs like stiles, gates etc when they are
> encountered.
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> When user returns home, track simplification algorithm used to make a
> way from the GPX trace and tags it with the tags equivalent to the ROW type.
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> User downloads data from OSM and algorithms are used to auto-join the
> user's new ways to existing ways where appropriate (or alternatively,
> the user does this manually)

This might have been a good idea in the early days, when most mapping 
used GPS and most mapping was onto an empty map.  These days, I think it 
would just cause problems as it would probably delay the proper 
association of the GPS tracks with, more accurate, aerial imagery data, 
and would not properly account for features that had already been 
mapped, but possibly on a different, or more accurate datum.