[talk-ph] Proposal to delete the imagery coverage outlines from the OSM database

Rally de Leon ralleon at gmail.com
Sat Mar 10 10:24:23 GMT 2012


+1

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I propose to delete the imagery coverage outlines that are currently
> in the OSM database (most are tagged with the special
> "outline=imagery" tag). Since we already have an imagery coverage
> map[1], I think that there's no longer any need to retain these
> outlines in the database, especially since they clutter up editing,
> are inadvertently joined to streets and roads by users, and they don't
> correspond to anything real on the ground and therefore do not really
> belong in the database in the first place..
>
> If there's new imagery, we just trace the outlines and then I can take
> them and merge them into the coverage map.
>
> What do you think?
>
> [1] http://forge.codedgraphic.com/osm/imagery_coverage/
>
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