[OSM-talk] data plucked from who-knows-where?

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> 80n wrote:
> 
>> Since street names are one of the harder bits of information to collect,
>> what this user has done here looks like a very worthwhile contribution to
>> the project.
>>
>> Perhaps we should even be encouraging users without GPS units to create this
>> kind of topological map.  It looks reasonably usable and is very consistent
>> with the wiki philosophy of incremental improvement.
>>
>> There are a lot more people without GPS units than there are with, and if
>> they can get pleasure from recording street names like this, then the GPS
>> mappers job is made much easier.
> 
> I like having 80n around here to speak wisely and calm down the rest  
> of us hotheads. :)
> 
> But we might need another tool to enable them to contribute this way -  
> I'm thinking OpenStreetBugs, Google Map Maker, and the painty thing  
> Oliver did the other year. Our current editors aren't really set up  
> for sketching, and correcting the Cheadle mapping is going to take  
> some poor soul(s) a lot of work.
> 
> Which begs a wider question... what, as a community, do we want our  
> editors to be?

Do you mean editors the software, or editors as in users?

I guess we need to tag all the nodes in Cheadle with something
source:position=estimated or something.

The tricky part in fixing them is moving them into the right places
without crossing the roads over each other or anything and getting
yourself very confused. Ideally we need editing software that lets you
drag control points in the area, and morphs all the points tagged as
estimated towards their real locations.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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