[Talk-GB] New users and P2

[Marc Gemis]

But a gate is some kind of important nagivational point.
I'm pretty sure that when someone removes a bench in my hometown, it
will take me a pretty long time to notice.

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On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26/02/2016 07:59, Marc Gemis wrote:
>>
>> How do you detect that stuff is gone ? I'm thinking of benches,
>> waste-bins, telephones, etc. All those little things that are not or
>> hardly visible on aerial imagery ?
>> Do you constantly look at the screen of your smartphone or GPS to see
>> whether there is such a "small" thing mapped ?
>>
> The maps I use on both the phone and the Garmin try and make the sorts of
> small things that I'm interested in fairly obvious (on Garmin maps I use the
> Garmin Office "G" symbol for gates, for example, and the map I use on the
> phone goes up to z20 overzoomed to z21, so it's easy to see small details
> there too, and read the text on a small screen).
>
> I still end up marking that (e.g.) "there is a bus stop here" and getting
> home and finding that it's already mapped, though :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy
>