[OSM-talk] Filling in the gaps in the map with crowdsourcing techniques

[Simon Poole]

I assume everybody saw my talk yesterday :-).

Seriously, even if you don't expose geometry to the end user your editor
needs to be geometry-aware (that means have at least internal access to
all variants of how the object of interest can be modeled in OSM) and
make the user aware of the presence of nearby objects.

As I pointed out in the talk, building a simple editor is hard. So hard
that we've not managed to actually develop one on any platform to date.
And there are number of things in OSM that actually work against that
(freeform tagging, complicated tagging schemes, different interpretation
of the schemes in the preset systems and so on).

Simon

On 26.09.2016 15:10, john whelan wrote:
> >From evidence of the edits I'm still to be convinced as to the usefulness
> of these smart phone devices. Often inaccurate & unclear (Navmii) or
> unable to recognise entities mapped as polygons & limit presets.
> (MAPS.ME <http://MAPS.ME> & others)
>
> A _very_ experienced mapper recently added POIs to places already
> mapped as closed ways:
> "I was testing out MAPS.ME <http://MAPS.ME> yesterday while out and
> about. But it's a bit limiting. Clearly I needed a shop=tea preset for
> example!"
>
> That is very much in my mind, buildings mapped as a way do not show up
> in OSMand for example for adding tags only POIs are available.
>
> Cheerio John
>
> On 26 September 2016 at 08:59, Dave F <davefoxfac63 at btinternet.com
> <mailto:davefoxfac63 at btinternet.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     On 25/09/2016 19:11, john whelan wrote:
>
>         OSMand and POI editing springs to mind...
>
>
>     From evidence of the edits I'm still to be convinced as to the
>     usefulness of these smart phone devices. Often inaccurate &
>     unclear (Navmii) or unable to recognise entities mapped as
>     polygons & limit presets. (MAPS.ME <http://MAPS.ME> & others)
>
>     A _very_ experienced mapper recently added POIs to places already
>     mapped as closed ways:
>     "I was testing out MAPS.ME <http://MAPS.ME> yesterday while out
>     and about. But it's a bit limiting. Clearly I needed a shop=tea
>     preset for example!"
>
>     Dave F. (Walking boots/bike, GPS, Camera, Pub)
>
>
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