[Talk-us] Find missing roads

[Jack Burke]

Clearly, your sample contained nuts. 


On September 30, 2015 2:40:37 PM EDT, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:
>>
>> Our OSM team cooked up something new. A missing roads plugin for
>JOSM. I
>> think it's pretty nice but I would really like to hear what you
>think.
>>
>
>Neat, has potential.
>
>You can read some more about it on my diary
>(http://bit.ly/missingroads)
>> but it's basically what it says on the tin. The plugin will show
>where we
>> think roads are missing from OSM based on GPS data so you can add
>them :)
>>
>
>Based on whose GPS data from where?  I trust the source in this
>question
>is completely halal, kosher, gluten-free, vegan, organic, free-range,
>all-natural data, but some of the output I'm getting from it is rather
>odd.  Take, for example, this screenshot in JOSM near node 148319848
><http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/148319848#map=14/36.1758/-95.8591>
>in my
>neighborhood.
>
>
>​
>Other than highlighting my own inadvertently selective blindness (what
>with
>having not mapped the large and aging chain link fence factory on the
>northeast corner of the intersection; Brinks behind my favorite
>QuikTrip
><http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/360912244#map=16/36.1769/-95.8668>
>only
>recently appeared on Bing), I do find two things remarkable about this
>plugin's output:
>
>   1. It seems to have picked out an incomplete set based on the paths
>   relative to imagery.
> 2. I have no way of being able to survey the exact location of the GPS
>output from the plugin from the ground (it's inside a fence factory,
>*of
> course* it's fenced off!), so I can only assume the GPS was located on
>   one of those big diesel-powered forklifts.
>
>
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