[OSM-talk] Flight "paths" in OSM

Charlie Ferrero charlie at cferrero.net
Sun Oct 10 10:46:12 BST 2010


On 10/10/2010 10:29, Richard Weait wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Dmitri Lebedev
> <siberia.accanto at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> please, look at this:
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/80906020
>>
>> It's a flight "path" from one airport to another. It's absolutely not real
>> (aircrafts fly along routes and navpoints more like "zig-zags", not the
>> straight grand circle ways).
>>
>> Imo this data is garbage. None of these points reflect any real data. A
>> grand circle between 2 random airports in the world can be calculated, but
>> there's no need to store all the calculated grand circles in the OSM db.
>>
>> Any other opinions?
>
> Agreed.  That's a new account.  I'll send a note to the new mapper.
>
I've seen other flight paths in the data too, so he's not the only one.



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