On 7 May 2015 at 10:21, Springfield Harrison <stellar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Having untrained users realign the imagery willy-nilly is amazing to me.
Usually we don't. This is crisis response and hence crisis-GIS. We are striving to produce useful and good enough data, not perfect data. We are working with multiple passes to improve gradually. Typically we split users: Basemap for everyone - with correctly georeferenced imagery (Bing), not up-to-date - with standard tagging, included in iD presets Specialists tasks for experienced OSM/GIS users - with cutting-edge imagery - with somewhat innovative or custom tagging > How is it that, "...the DigitalGlobe 2015-05-03 (DG) images have had > minimal georectification.." This is bizarre, this is not GIS, this is > merely sketching. Why is such imagery being offered and accepted? Because this imagery is: first, only, available, best, useful and directly put to use. > it seems that most people are content with a world that can be up to 200 m > out of whack. We are not. _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot