[Talk-GB] Isleworth Ait, W London

Robert Skedgell rob at hubris.org.uk
Tue Aug 17 14:45:11 UTC 2021


On 13/08/2021 19:50, Mark Goodge wrote:
> 
> 
> On 13/08/2021 18:56, Andy Townsend wrote:
> 
>> I've no idea what the likely timelag on the import process for
>> Mapbox's maps is these days, but I suspect that it's longer than an
>> hour.  A few years ago it was something of a running joke that if you
>> wanted to look at what OSM was like a few months back, you should have
>> a look at a map which used Mapbox's services.  I've no idea if that
>> reputation is still deserved, but I absolutely wouldn't expect that
>> quick an update (and to be fair, an "up to the minute map" is
>> something that I doubt most Mapbox customers even care about).
> 
> Mapbox's example Leaflet map, on their documentation page, still doesn't
> include an edit I made eight months ago.
> 
> Mark
> 

>From the tiles they supply to Strava, Mapbox seem to update some things,
like highways within a week or two.

On the other hand, the ghost of the practice athletics track for the
London 2012 Olympic Games seems doomed to haunt the map for eternity. I
deleted it (somewhat belatedly) in 2019 or 2020, by which time the site
had been occupied by tens of thousands of tonnes of aggregates for at
least 5 years.

-- 
Robert Skedgell (rskedgell)



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