[Talk-GB] New users and P2

[Philip Barnes]

On Fri Feb 26 11:23:34 2016 GMT, David Woolley wrote:
> On 25/02/16 17:04, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> >
> 
> > User can also enter relevant POIs like stiles, gates etc when they are
> > encountered.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> 
PROW mapping still requires good gps traces, such mapping simply cannot be done using aerial imagery alone. 

Whilst my experienced countryside eye can spot a gate used by farm vehicles, there is no way to tell if a hedge/fence crossing in a stile,  gate or kissing gate without an on the ground survey. 

Any tools which help mapping these can only be a good thing. 

Phil (trigpoint)
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