[OSM-talk] Detrimental validation software

Maarten Deen mdeen at xs4all.nl
Thu Oct 16 15:10:03 UTC 2014


On 2014-10-16 15:43, SomeoneElse wrote:
> On 16/10/2014 14:28, Maarten Deen wrote:
>> On 2014-10-16 15:15, Dave F. wrote:
>> 
>>>  I had a footpath between them.
>> 
>> So the problem is also that the check is wrong. Apperantly it looks at 
>> major roads that are apart, but doesn't see that they are connected by 
>> another road.
>> IMHO these cases should not be shown at all.
> 
> Quite possibly, but as (Andrew Buck has already said) what really
> happened here is that a mapper made a mistake.

But he would not have been led there if it wasn't pointed out as an 
error.

>  It's not a software
> problem so much as a human one

I beg to differ. The roads were connected. Why show an error "two roads 
are not connected" when there is a connection.

Regards,
Maarten



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