If we go back in time OSM started with people cycling round carrying a GPS
tracker device and photographing street signs.
Now we have other ways of collecting data and to be honest often it's a
matter of ensuring what we have in the map is up to date.
Imagery is fine as far as it goes but it fall
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> Il giorno 25 set 2016, alle ore 20:11, john whelan ha
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> Vescuppi would work but again if we are to make of use the crowdsourcing
> techniques in some ways pioneered by HOT of maperthons and iD we need
> something simple and a way to focus in on those element
Personally I prefer to take GPS tagged photographs when trying to
pinpoint something outside. However, this method doesn't (reliably) work
everywhere (e.g. in urban canyons). When the signal is too weak for a
GPS fix or non-existent, there are other methods to resort to. For
example specialised app
On 25.09.16 20:11, john whelan wrote:
If we go back in time OSM started with people cycling round carrying a
GPS tracker device and photographing street signs.
Now we have other ways of collecting data and to be honest often it's
a matter of ensuring what we have in the map is up to date.
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. (
>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 & others)
A _very_ experienced mapper recently added POIs to places already mapp
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 o
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