[OSM-talk] Dealing with the tainted data

Chris Hill osm at raggedred.net
Tue Jan 10 18:46:10 GMT 2012


On 10/01/12 18:30, john whelan wrote:
> May I suggest that the clean way to deal with the data in OSM is to 
> basically remap the roads using Bing and the JOSM or whatever plugin 
> so the data is labelled as coming from Bing.  Bing is available and it 
> would give a much more consistent and accurate map than OSM currently is.
Is this a wind up? What makes you think Bing is accurate? Bing is 12 
(twelve) years old here.
>
> Ideally I'd do it on a new layer so that the older stuff could just be 
> switched out.
>
> I think the idea of running round with GPSes and using the traces of 
> dubious accuracy or tracing from satellite images is really a bit 
> dated these days.
You certainly need to align Bing imagery so you do need to "run around 
with a GPS" to make any sense of the Bing imagery. The last time I 
looked Bing doesn't have any names on it, speed limits, access 
restrictions ...

Sorry, this really must be a wind up that I've risen to.

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Cheers, Chris
user: chillly




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