[OSM-talk] Contact And Remap Campaign

[Ed Loach]

John,

> I've started to remap an area that I don't know from first-hand
> experience, as it's got a particularly high concentration of data
that
> was mapped by a decliner.  I'm remapping it from Bing (deleting
old
> data and re-tracing it) which means that I lose the road names.  I
> don't think this is particularly satisfactory, I'm just doing it
so
> there won't be a gap from the switchover date.

It looks like you've picked Exeter - a place I was also considering
looking at when chance permits.

There is other imagery besides Bing, at least in GB; OS Opendata and
OS Locator for example. Just remember to add source:name tags so
they can be later checked by a survey. You will unfortunately lose
the "not:name" tags if those ways are amongst those that need
replacing. 

Or if you leave the names off, then the roads will appear in the ITO
analysis tool[1] in a day or so and someone else can add the names
(again with suitable source:name tags) if they feel so inclined.

Ed

[1]
http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/osm_analysis/area?name=Exeter