[OSM-talk] Retaggin of ways

[Andy Robinson (blackadder)]

Jo [mailto:ml at winfix.it] wrote:
>Sent: 06 December 2007 10:37 AM
>To: Andy Robinson (blackadder)
>Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Retaggin of ways
>
>Hi Andy,
>
>I understand that one source is not enough. Right now I've been working
>on a 30 km stretch of highway, making sure all the bridges are correct.
>It's an enormous amount of work, but Potlatch is a great help. I arrived
>in Brussels and now I'm working on the distribution of the highway. I'm
>pretty sure I could switch on gpx tracks to see other people's tracks.
>This is a very busy junction, but how am I going to know where these
>people where going and which specific subset of the highway they were
>using. It's constantly splitting and merging and I'm trying to capture
>that kind of detail. On the imagery I can even see how many lanes that
>specific part of the motorway has. What is there from previous editors
>aligns pretty well, so I think the imagery is aligned rather well over
>here. It's not like I'm compelled to move everything over 3,5 meters
>southeast. That would quickly get very tedious...
>
>Jo
>
>
Agree entirely, if you have imagery for a complicated location then it's
logical to create everything from scratch using the imagery to tell you
exactly how it looks. That's what we have to do by eye/photos for areas with
no imagery. No change there. But when you have created everything it is
possible to check and move the whole mass if it needs adjusting to the best
spatial position. I don't think you can do that in Potlatch but you
certainly can if you fire up JOSM.

Cheers

Andy