[OSM-talk] Don't you just hate it when part 2...

[Jeffrey Martin]

Don't have that problem in South Korea.
There are lots of English teaching jobs
here if any mappers map the unmapped.
-Jeff

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Shaun McDonald
<shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk> wrote:
>
> On 8 Jun 2008, at 23:35, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
>
>> On Sunday 08 Jun 2008 22:35, you wrote:
>>> yes! I do hate it,. but not because I don't regret walking or being
>>> outside,
>>
>> Same with me too, though I might have gone somewhere else if I'd
>> known! Guess
>> the lesson is to make sure you know what the others in your area are
>> doing...
>>
>> I think I may have met the guy out mapping today actually. About
>> 17.30 I
>> passed someone with a yellow Etrex but thought nothing of it, but it
>> was in
>> the common area. Good side of the coincident mapping isthat it looks
>> like
>> that area is pretty well covered now...
>>
>
> The way I look at it, is that you will often find that if two people
> survey an area, they will both think different things are more
> important, or one will miss something. You can also use it as a way to
> check what is already there, as there may be something missing or wrong.
>
> It has happened to me before many times, but as I've been able to add
> to the data, and verify that what I have is the same as what is there
> (or discover that there is a discrepancy and either change or resurvey
> depending on my certainty).
>
> Shaun
>
>
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