[OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

[John F. Eldredge]

I took your description of what you were doing at face value.  Being a borderline-Asperger's type, I am sometimes a bit too literal-minded.

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Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced
From  :mailto:stevagewp at gmail.com
Date  :Wed Dec 22 20:02:12 America/Chicago 2010


On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:19 PM, John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com> wrote:
> If you can map a street in just five seconds, using just three clicks and a keypress, this implies that you are mapping just the end points, with just a calculated line between them.  Very few streets in the world are absolutely straight, with no curves at all.  This also means that you aren't bothering to join streets at intersections, so none of the streets you map will be routable.  Plus, from what you say, you aren't creating any tags on the roads you map.  Most of the rest of us try to do a better job of mapping than that.

Good grief. Where do I start? By apologising for my loose wording:
"click, click, click" wasn't meant to indicate precisely three clicks.
It's often four.

>Very few streets in the world are absolutely straight

They are in grid-pattern suburbia and in agricultural areas on flat
land. Prepare to have your mind blown:
http://osm.org/go/uHo5Jhc-
http://osm.org/go/uG4IcTi7-

>This also means that you aren't bothering to join streets at intersections,

You can create a branch from one street, and connect it to another
street (ie, a straight side street) with a shift-click, and one more
click. Potlatch 2.

>Plus, from what you say, you aren't creating any tags on the roads you map.

That's what the "R" keypress is for. Repeat tags.
highway=residential,source=Bing. Sometimes there's a surface=unpaved.

>Most of the rest of us try to do a better job of mapping than that.

The only way your whole email makes sense is if you think I'm a
retarded monkey who failed OSM 101. I mean really: you think I'm
sitting here creating a bunch of straight ways (even though the road
is curved), that aren't connected to anything, and have no tags at all
(not even highway=road). I'd be insulted, but your suggestions are
just too ludicrous.If you were just trolling, then well played.

Steve

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