[Talk-us] note to folks doing mapping based on aerial imagery

Richard Welty rwelty at averillpark.net
Sun Apr 10 23:39:56 BST 2011


On 4/10/11 1:50 PM, Alan Mintz wrote:
> At 2011-04-10 08:16, Richard Welty wrote:
>> please don't go overboard mapping areas from imagery where you
>> can't do ground surveys, particularly where there are clearly local 
>> mappers
>> working.
>
> ...and please try to make this obvious to others, particularly by 
> removing the tiger:reviewed=no tag on TIGER import ways. This causes 
> them to render differently in most editors, and are an indicator that 
> someone is tending to the area.
unfortunately, this isn't terribly effective. i removed the reviewed 
tags long
before the area in question got "fixed" twice.

i have comment tags on the relevant ways now, but i'm going to change
comment to README to make it more obvious.

richard




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