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

[Michael Collinson]

At 08:28 AM 9/7/2007, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>Hi,
>
> > So there are random parks, so what?  Surely its better than a 
> whole load of
> > white space on the map?  I'll hold my hand up here and admit I've added
> > loads of woodland from the Yahoo imagery
>
>Me too; woodland, lakes, and rough "landuse=residential" areas... adds
>a lot in terms of orientation on lower zoom levels. I have even traced
>railroads from landsat; I wouldn't to so through already-mapped
>terrain but if it helps structuring an otherwise empty area...


A big +1.  Such activity fits in well with GPS-track based 
mapping.  It makes it much easier to orientate oneself in a sparsely 
mapped area and it is useful to see that a suspicious kink in a road 
is because it skirts a wood or goes over a railway/river rather than 
being spurious data.

Mike
Stockholm