[OSM-talk] Anonymous edits

[Andy Robinson]

On 20/11/2007, 80n <80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 20, 2007 1:10 PM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > David James wrote:
> >
> > > Good, I'd seen that article in the Wiki, but I misread your posting as
> > > saying that 500m was too dense, and I was afraid I was recording too
> > > frequently. I find I'm recording nodes *much* more frequently than every
> > > 500 m, except on the very straightest bits of road.
> >
> > Good - we need more people like you!
> >
> > I often find myself adding new points to existing roads so they follow
> > the curves of the existing GPS tracks...
> >
>
>
> I do also.  This shouldn't be seen as a criticism of the original
> contributor.  I often find that they are using a very sparse track log (one
> point every 10 seconds or so) so they don't have that detail available.
>
> Anyway IMHO its much better that the road is marked crudely than not at all.
>  That said, of course we should encourage people to be as diligent as
> possible but not everyone is as obsessed as us ;)
>
> I often wonder where we would be now if OSM had started by drawing straight
> lines between cities to represent the motorway network - and then encouraged
> stepwise refinement and infilling.
>
> We could still do that even now for some places.  The Moscow - St Petersburg
> railway springs to mind as an easy target - I'm sure you're all familiar
> with the story of the Tsar's ruler.

I can recommend the sleeper from Moscow to St Petersburg. I travelled
it in 2005, alas  without a GPS. Its a real throw back to the grand
old age of the railway and you even get some nice salmon caviar for
your breakfast :-)

Cheers

Andy


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Andy Robinson