Re: [OSM-talk] Don't you just hate it when part 2...

[Andrew Chadwick (email lists)]

Vincent Zweije wrote:
> 
> Hmm... everyone should be wearing their OSM shirt or other mark while
> mapping... you'd have have a nice conversation as a result.

Slight downside to the OSM high-vis vests that Graham Smith sorted out
recently: I've noticed that more people ask me for directions when I'm
wearing it than when I'm not. One local resident even seemed to think I
was some sort of official surveyor bod and tried to mine me for
information about some recently-cleared land. Quite what a real surveyor
would be doing out on a Saturday, I'm not sure, but +1 for how fake-
official they look.

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Re: [OSM-talk] Don't you just hate it when part 2...

[Vincent Zweije]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 10:21:47AM +0100, Nick Whitelegg wrote:

||  I thought when I passed the GPS guy "is he doing OSM?" and thought about
||  starting a conversation but didn't. Oh well

Hmm... everyone should be wearing their OSM shirt or other mark while
mapping... you'd have have a nice conversation as a result.

Ciao.Vincent.
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Re: [OSM-talk] Don't you just hate it when part 2...

[Nick Whitelegg]

>The way I look at it, is that you will often find that if two people 
>survey an area, they will both think different things are more 
>important, or one will miss something. You can also use it as a way to 
>check what is already there, as there may be something missing or wrong.

Yes, that was a more successful outcome of yesterday. The other guy had 
tagged the whole bridleway as bridleway, but I re-tagged some of it as 
track/foot=yes/horse=yes to reflect the physical surface. Also about half 
the bridleway was left undone. Also there was a footpath in the same area 
which was actually a bridleway (I suspected this and verified it) and 
another path nearby which formed a rather nice circle round the side of a 
hill, but was in OSM as a straight line.

I thought when I passed the GPS guy "is he doing OSM?" and thought about 
starting a conversation but didn't. Oh well

Nick

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Re: [OSM-talk] Don't you just hate it when part 2...

[Steve Hill]

On Sun, 8 Jun 2008, Nick Whitelegg wrote:

> Same with me too, though I might have gone somewhere else if I'd known! Guess
> the lesson is to make sure you know what the others in your area are doing...

It is useful to have a wiki page for your area where people can state what 
areas they are working on... of course it also helps if people actually 
use it (only two people are using the Swansea wiki page, even though there 
are more than two of us mapping Swansea) :(

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Re: [OSM-talk] Don't you just hate it when part 2...

[Jeffrey Martin]

Don't have that problem in South Korea.
There are lots of English teaching jobs
here if any mappers map the unmapped.
-Jeff

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Shaun McDonald
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 8 Jun 2008, at 23:35, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
>
>> On Sunday 08 Jun 2008 22:35, you wrote:
>>> yes! I do hate it,. but not because I don't regret walking or being
>>> outside,
>>
>> Same with me too, though I might have gone somewhere else if I'd
>> known! Guess
>> the lesson is to make sure you know what the others in your area are
>> doing...
>>
>> I think I may have met the guy out mapping today actually. About
>> 17.30 I
>> passed someone with a yellow Etrex but thought nothing of it, but it
>> was in
>> the common area. Good side of the coincident mapping isthat it looks
>> like
>> that area is pretty well covered now...
>>
>
> The way I look at it, is that you will often find that if two people
> survey an area, they will both think different things are more
> important, or one will miss something. You can also use it as a way to
> check what is already there, as there may be something missing or wrong.
>
> It has happened to me before many times, but as I've been able to add
> to the data, and verify that what I have is the same as what is there
> (or discover that there is a discrepancy and either change or resurvey
> depending on my certainty).
>
> Shaun
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Re: [OSM-talk] Don't you just hate it when part 2...

[Shaun McDonald]

On 8 Jun 2008, at 23:35, Nick Whitelegg wrote:

> On Sunday 08 Jun 2008 22:35, you wrote:
>> yes! I do hate it,. but not because I don't regret walking or being
>> outside,
>
> Same with me too, though I might have gone somewhere else if I'd  
> known! Guess
> the lesson is to make sure you know what the others in your area are  
> doing...
>
> I think I may have met the guy out mapping today actually. About  
> 17.30 I
> passed someone with a yellow Etrex but thought nothing of it, but it  
> was in
> the common area. Good side of the coincident mapping isthat it looks  
> like
> that area is pretty well covered now...
>

The way I look at it, is that you will often find that if two people  
survey an area, they will both think different things are more  
important, or one will miss something. You can also use it as a way to  
check what is already there, as there may be something missing or wrong.

It has happened to me before many times, but as I've been able to add  
to the data, and verify that what I have is the same as what is there  
(or discover that there is a discrepancy and either change or resurvey  
depending on my certainty).

Shaun


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Re: [OSM-talk] Don't you just hate it when part 2...

[Mark Williams]

Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> On Sunday 08 Jun 2008 22:35, you wrote:
>> yes! I do hate it,. but not because I don't regret walking or being
>> outside,
> 
> Same with me too, though I might have gone somewhere else if I'd known! Guess 
> the lesson is to make sure you know what the others in your area are doing...
> 
> I think I may have met the guy out mapping today actually. About 17.30 I 
> passed someone with a yellow Etrex but thought nothing of it, but it was in 
> the common area. Good side of the coincident mapping isthat it looks like 
> that area is pretty well covered now...
> 
> Nick
> 

Possibly it's worse when they were playing at being God & did it with Yahoo!

Bad luck..

Mark


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Re: [OSM-talk] Don't you just hate it when part 2...

[Nick Whitelegg]

On Sunday 08 Jun 2008 22:35, you wrote:
> yes! I do hate it,. but not because I don't regret walking or being
> outside,

Same with me too, though I might have gone somewhere else if I'd known! Guess 
the lesson is to make sure you know what the others in your area are doing...

I think I may have met the guy out mapping today actually. About 17.30 I 
passed someone with a yellow Etrex but thought nothing of it, but it was in 
the common area. Good side of the coincident mapping isthat it looks like 
that area is pretty well covered now...

Nick

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Re: [OSM-talk] Don't you just hate it when part 2...

[chippy chippy]

yes! I do hate it,. but not because I don't regret walking or being
outside, the thing I do regret is a) not knowng someone else is
editing that area and b) the time spent making notes, sketch maps,
taking photos, talking like a mad man into my top pocket concealed
dictaphone!



On 6/8/08, Nick Whitelegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ... you go out on a 10 mile walk to fill in a one mile bridleway, only to find
>  it's appeared on OSM just today
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[OSM-talk] Don't you just hate it when part 2...

[Nick Whitelegg]

... you go out on a 10 mile walk to fill in a one mile bridleway, only to find 
it's appeared on OSM just today

Nick

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