[Openstreetmap] map walthamstow - CANCELLATION (from me at least)

[Tom Carden]

Lars Aronsson wrote:
> Tom Carden wrote:
>
>> How do you know what is a road, and what is not, without
>> knowledge of the area being mapped?
>
> In most cases that I've seen, it has been pretty obvious.  So far
> the European map is dominated by Sxpert's tracks spanning the long
> roads from Grenoble in France to Kirkenes in Norway.  Anyway, in
> some cases I could be wrong.  For example, what I see in tracks
> and draw as maps might be a temporary detour and not the main
> road.  In that case, nothing should stop someone with better
> knowledge from correcting the map.  That's the wiki principle:
> edit this map.  Sometimes in a wiki, writing an incomplete entry
> on something is a way to ask a question to the other users.
>

OK, that makes a lot of sense.  Agreed on the wiki-ness of your approach.  I 
guess I was just hoping that you weren't mapping central London for 
example - I've lived here three years and I'd struggle to be sure what was a 
road and what was a cyclist's short-cut or pedestrian route.

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Presentation and usability suggestions all noted, thanks!

>> New applet ETA: August 1st.  Fingers crossed!
>
> Hope I can show it to people at Wikimania on August 4-8 then.
>

Oh, the pressure!

(Once I hit the first release, it will of course be in SVN for bug-fixing 
etc.  This "one man" development won't last long, with luck.)

Regards,

Tom.