[OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love
Shaun McDonald
shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk
Tue Jul 15 13:59:19 BST 2008
Philip Shipley wrote:
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> >>I have started this section on this page:
> >>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Yahoo!_Aerial_Imagery#Problems_with_tracing_Yahoo
> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Yahoo%21_Aerial_Imagery#Problems_with_tracing_Yahoo>
> >>Many of the suggestions require ground knowledge.
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> Reading the section pointed to above, it states
> "Roads are unnamed, so the highway=road tag should be used, until
> either on the ground classification or someone who knows the area
> comes and updates the data. "
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> But this is not compatible with the "How to Sketch" section 3
> paragraphs above - here it states that using a highway tag is not
> recommended.
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> As someone new around here I am not sure if I have been doing the
> right thing now - I have been setting "highway=road" & "note=yahoo image"
highway=road is a very new tag, and the page needs to be updated to
reflect this new tag. It would be better to use source=yahoo image,
rather than not=yahoo image.
Shaun
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