[OSM-talk] Is *just* tracing useful?

[Tom Chance]

On Friday 07 September 2007 00:08:30 Dave Stubbs wrote:
> Now my question is this: is this tracing actually useful?
>
> From my mapping perspective:
>  - it makes it much harder to see what needs doing
>  - when loaded onto my GPS the traced stuff becomes very difficult to
> distinguish, so it takes me longer and I also miss stuff because I assume
> it's been done.
>  - entering the data takes longer because I have to fix all the oneway
> streets, and the ways that don't follow the roads, the ways that aren't
> roads, and all the bits that were missed anyway... it's much quicker to
> generate from scratch correctly
>
> In other words, I'd rather people didn't do it!

I concur, in the area I've been mapping I usually end up spending more time 
deleting old segments and waysthan I do putting mine in from scratch. Unless 
you've been there you just don't know what the roads are like.

I'm sure some people do it with the intention of then visiting the area, so it 
can't all be bad. But where I've been working it looks like people have just 
randomly added odd bits of roads, parks, etc.

Kind regards,
Tom

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