[Talk-us] a reminder for armchair mappers

[Natfoot]

I also agree that putting notes in the tags are helpful to some of us that
are armchair mappers.  I will see the tags sooner than the history data. I
tend to map around railroads using the imagery and Tiger data and tags.
-Nathan


On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:

> That is a great point and something I feel strongly about, having
> created armchair mapper's tools like Battle Grid and Maproulette.
>
> I will make some time to put in a warning notice into these tools that
> would pop up the first time folks use it. What would a good, concise,
> cautionary note look like?
>
> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net>
> wrote:
> > if you see a discrepancy between aerial imagery and OSM, before you
> > go adding/changing stuff, check on the history of the stuff that's there
> > and see if another mapper has worked on things recently (for some
> > value of recently.) i have done a bunch of work in the past month
> > adding in a new traffic circle on US 4 in Rensselaer County, NY,
> > using GPS traces. as part of the process,  i removed a slip ramp
> > from I-90 that was taken out by DOT when they built the new
> > circle. i just now discovered that another mapper added the slip
> > ramp back in, presumably because it's in the Bing imagery, which
> > is at this point 2 or 3 years old.
> >
> > this isn't the first time i've been through this; a year or so back
> > a couple of armchair mappers repeatedly changed a part of Troy
> > to match obsolete imagery and i kept having to ask them not to
> > and put back in the recent changes. i now put README tags on
> > the ways but if i delete something i have no place to put a
> > README tag.
> >
> > imagery goes out of date. armchair mappers must never forget
> > that. if the imagery doesn't match the map, contact a local mapper
> > if you can identify one. you could be fixing something that wasn't
> > actually broken.
> >
> > thanks,
> >    richard
> >
> >
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