[OSM-talk] Uploading Tracks

[Joerg Ostertag]

On Monday 24 July 2006 14:51, Etienne wrote:
> In the same way that it is considered bad form to add content to Wikipedia
> without referencing your sources, it should also be considered bad form to
> add information to OSM that cannot be verified.
>
> In the case of ways, uploaded tracklogs are a first class form of
> verification.  Landsat images are another acceptable form (although of
> variable quality).  For streetnames I always tag my ways with the file name
> of the photograph that I took (and these are accessible on-line).
>
> In addition to the obvious copyright defence, nodes and ways that are
> supported by documentary evidence are more credible to potential users of
> OSM than if they just mysteriously "got there".  The more supporting
> documentary evidence the better.
>
> Should we be starting to think about patrolling recent edits?  We should be
> suspicious of large amounts of new data that does not have any supporting
> evidence.

I think it would be good to encourage people to also upload their tracks and 
tag them with the photo ID. 

BUT !!

I also know that sometimes it may be difficult to do so. I got and get some 
tracks from friends who told me I can use the tracks for creating streets out 
of it, but they would not like to have there tracks uploaded on any public 
server. So having the tracks on my local PC enables me to create a really 
large amount of streets by drawing all the stuff i get from the tracks. But i 
couldn't do so if I had to upload all the tracks too.
But since I see the point; I'll try to get permission to upload as many tracks 
as possible in the near future.

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Joerg