[Openstreetmap] GPS track oddities
Jonathan McDowell
noodles at earth.li
Fri Oct 14 20:24:56 BST 2005
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 06:29:01PM +0100, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> Are you zoomed in too far? Landsat is only low resolution data so if
> you zoom in too far it becomes very indistinct. It's better for
> viewing say 5km x 5km areas. The main purpose for incorporating
> Landsat into osm-editor is for people to estimate polygons such as
> lakes etc, though it also provides interesting browsing over large
> areas.
I'm pretty sure the dark line on the Landsat data that's parallel to the
track but above it is the main road that the track is part of; while the
resolution of the Landsat data is low I can't think what else such a
dark line would be in this area.
J.
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