[OSM-talk] Street Complete

Greg Morgan dr.kludge.gm at gmail.com
Sat Jun 10 21:03:30 UTC 2017


On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 2:01 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Every location is not covered by cellular networks.
>
> I use only wifi, it will store the area image tiles on the phone and the
> changes until you get back to wifi.
>
>
It is the same issue.  Not every location is covered by wifi either.




> Cheerio John
>
> On 10 June 2017 at 16:48, Greg Morgan <dr.kludge.gm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 3:17 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 9:06 AM, James <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Mean while in other common wealth countries like Canada or Australia,
>>>> it's not economically viable to pave every road. This is a very closed view
>>>> on the world we live in.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Heck, that's pretty true in the US as well; I actually did the research
>>> on this for a bet recently.  Unpaved centerline miles outnumber paved
>>> centerline miles by around 3:1 in Oklahoma and closer to 7:1 in Oregon
>>> (with over 60 of those unpaved centerline miles being Portland city
>>> streets!).
>>>
>>
>> It feels like the map orients itself to urban mapping too much.  My
>> stereo type is that if an urbanite runs into a dirt road they usually tag
>> it as a track.  I laughed when I came a cross dirt road that was silky
>> smooth and could comfortably fit three semi-tractor trailers as a
>> highway=track. Or there is the well maintained AZ 88[1] that was downgraded
>> to unclassified from tertiary[2] presumably because the road is unpaved.
>> There are mile markers, a state ref number, and at least one hotel.
>>
>> I've used a number of these phone applications.  Each has their strengths
>> and weaknesses.  Pick one or more to meet your mapping needs.  In the case
>> of StreetComplete I thought that the whole point of the application was
>> to read OSM data; ask a few questions; and change the map.  There's another
>> weakness of the application.  Every location is not covered by cellular
>> networks.
>>
>> [1]https://www.mapillary.com/app/?lat=33.527969006834496&lng
>> =-111.31676532746405&z=17&pKey=sS6f6s5B_jMurb7qt4bfeQ&focus=photo
>> [2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/124976509
>>
>>
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