[OSM-talk] New proposal: Bad data

[John Smith]

--- On Wed, 26/8/09, Elizabeth Dodd <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:

> some places i have been over so many times (like the road
> to canberra, the 
> roads to adelaide, and the road to work) that the actual
> date is meaningless, 

It's not meaningless, and if it changes just update the survey date.

> but the last year i did the journey is
> we also can't date the satellite imagery accurately.
> for example
> landsat is supposedly the 7 year old set, but it is about
> 10 years old at 
> home, judging from the dates of new housing estates

With google earth you can figure out the age of the imagery for a particular location, I've no idea if there is anything similar for yahoo imagery, but you could always estimate it:

imagery_date:estimate=20070101