[Talk-GB] Cadastral Guidance

Oliver Simmons oliversimmo at gmail.com
Thu May 13 19:14:00 UTC 2021


On Wed, 12 May 2021 at 16:40, David Woolley <forums at david-woolley.me.uk> wrote:
>
> On 12/05/2021 16:10, Jez Nicholson wrote:
> > How's this..... https://osmuk.org/cadastral-parcels/
> > <https://osmuk.org/cadastral-parcels/> ?
> >
> > If anyone wishes to proffer some words for JOSM usage then I will expand
> > that section.
>
> I think what was being requested is to idiot proof JOSM by giving it
> built-in knowledge that cadastral information is definitive on location.
>
> I don't think that is a good idea, not least because, in some areas,
> there may be a lot of detail mapped relative to less accurate aerial
> imagery, and the normal response, in that case, is to adjust other
> sources to the the dominant offset, rather than to drag everything to
> the more accurate source.

I think it would be good to have JOSM know that usually it's not going
to want to be adjusted.
Not make it impossible to adjust, as like you said, there are times
when you might want to move it.
But for general use (and esp. newbies) it would be good to at least
show a warning.

-Oliver Simmons



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