[Talk-us] Find missing roads

[Paul Johnson]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Mike N <niceman at att.net> wrote:

> On 9/30/2015 2:40 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
>>  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.
>>
>
>   I had a look at the plugin - it does find some interesting things.  I
> find that truckers use the Scout App, and the profile where they drive
> around a huge factory to pick up / drop off a load appears the same as if a
> car is going through a previously unknown subdivision.
>

Wow, that's both awesome and a little toe-curling, though would be nice if
Scout had some of the alarm and vehicle parameter options of Osmand.


>   So once the plugin identifies an area of interest, confirm with imagery
> or TIGER for the next step
>    - add driveways to a factory
>

Done.  Might have to check


>   The odd cloud of points comes from random inaccuracies of a smartphone
> inside a vehicle, and excluded for a certain distance from existing roads
> to minimize false positives.
>

OK, that makes a bit of sense.  Wonder if there's a way to enable that edge
case data to see other routable approaches.
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