[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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