[OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 51, Issue 7

[David Ebling]

Ok, I've spent half of this evening trying to bring some semblance of reality to Cheadle, well, at least the bit to the west of the A522. I used NPE as the main source of info. There's still an *awfu*l lot to be done in this area, and even the bits I've done are merely a lot less inaccurate than they were! They are by no means accurate, just in the right ball park.

Anyone else fancy having a shot at some of the other areas? Lots of the country lanes are so far out that it takes referring to village names to even begin working out what's what.

While the info contained there is very useful, converting it into accurate maps is an awful lot of hard work.

Does anyone fancy emailing the user and introducing them to NPE on Potlatch, GPS tracks on Potlatch, and other sources they ought to be using to improve their freestyle mapping? While they're at it, they can give a tutorial on how to join ways up properly and how to avoid roads that are a big messy tangle in a line!

Dave

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Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:37:38 +0000
From: Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemeD.net>
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] data plucked from who-knows-where?
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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?

cheers
Richard







      
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