[OSM-talk] N00b experiences

[Andy Robinson]

Tis true, When I can get Landsat tiles for the applet (seems to be less and
less these days) I find it very useful for adding water features and
definding the boundaries of other land areas and for adding in railway lines
that have poor or zero track points. The only slight snag is that generally
the position of the Landsat is 50m or so out for my areas of interest so I
have to be prepared to adjust the location of the final object to fit
properly with the underlying edits created from gps trackpoints.

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 
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>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Nick Whitelegg
>Sent: 03 September 2006 2:30 PM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] N00b experiences
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>>Well, there's less content for my city yet, so I tried to use the
>>landsat. It's in fact lame, but today I learned that I will not need it
>>as soon I have some data up as orientation points. This means: Don't
>>care about the landsat feature, there are surely more important
>>things :) .
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>Sorry, forgot to reply to this bit in my last email. Whilst the landsat
>isn't great for estimating city roads, there are some things Landsat is
>extremely useful for. For instance, if I want to estimate the positions of
>woods, lakes or heaths, it is good enough for that purpose. Landsat also
>helped me with adjusting a railway I added to OSM the other day... the GPX
>track wasn't great, so I used Landsat (plus existing OSM footpath data) to
>adjust its track.
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>Nick
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