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

[Alan Mintz]

At 2011-04-10 15:39, Richard Welty wrote:
>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.

Hmmm. I've been using http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:note for such 
comments. Any idea which of them render by default in the various editors 
(and not in non-debug renderers)? My JOSM config is non-standard in this 
regard (mappaint.nameOrder), so I can't tell easily.

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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>