[Talk-us] Which county next?

[Steve Coast]

On 6/8/2011 3:11 PM, Dale Puch wrote:
> A few suggestions:
>
>     * A way to move the pointer without submitting the location.  In
>       case the pointer is hiding something.  Or perhaps a checkbox to
>       temporarily hide the pointer
>

Huh... I'll look at that.

>     * You have a skip button, but no way to determine why it was
>       skipped.  Perhaps add buttons or check boxes for the reason it
>       was skipped.  This will allow revisiting those items that need
>       it by issue, like if better images become available, or better
>       methods for identifying the point.  Possibly even manually
>       surveying the points.  I think this is an important one to add. 
>       Possible skip reasons I can think of.  Poor image, empty parcel,
>       correct location, can't identify location from sat view
>       (apartment, multiple entrances, multiple buildings ect.)
>

Yes, there are lots of possible reasons. In the end though it's a 
tradeoff between a fun and simple UI and data capture.

>     * Can you overlay a parcel outline to positively identify which
>       parcel (and it's limits) this refers to.
>

Nope, can't do that.

>
>
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Alan Mintz 
> <Alan_Mintz+OSM at earthlink.net <mailto:Alan_Mintz%2BOSM at earthlink.net>> 
> wrote:
>
>     At 2011-06-08 10:57, Steve Coast wrote:
>
>         Who says it's being done for driving directions?
>
>
>     Is that/will that not be a popular use for OSM? It does not make
>     walking directions impossible - just requires the addition of the
>     driveway to the map. OTOH, putting the pin on the front door of a
>     building inside a large parcel may well leave a driver lost and
>     quite a distance from where he needs to be.
>
>
>
>         On 6/7/2011 3:28 PM, Alan Mintz wrote:
>
>             "The site allows you to drag a pin from where we think an
>             address currently is to the front door of the property"
>
>             Is that really where we want the pin to be for driving
>             directions? I've mostly tended to either putting the
>             address info on a complete landuse polygon, or if a point,
>             placing it on the driveway, just off the street to which
>             it connects. I swear I read this somewhere as standard
>             practice, and it makes sense from a navigation standpoint,
>             particularly for rural parcels, where a "driveway" can be
>             hundreds of meters long and not mapped.
>
>             San Diego County, CA, USA has a bunch of address data from
>             a SanGIS import.
>
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