[OSM-talk] correcting/helping inexperienced mappers

2010-07-03 Thread Nathan Edgars II
Pieren wrote: I don't understand you. If they don't follow and don't cross, then you don't have duplicate nodes anyway... The TIGER import has numerous topological errors, including many highways crossing boundaries when they really don't (due to one or both being in the wrong position). TIGER

Re: [OSM-talk] correcting/helping inexperienced mappers

2010-07-02 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 2 Jul 2010, at 05:07, Robin Paulson wrote: there's a mapper near me, who's very active adding data. the problem is, he's making a lot of mistakes, such as roads not joining correctly at junctions, bridges drawn as a separate parallel line to the highway they should relate to, and other

Re: [OSM-talk] correcting/helping inexperienced mappers

2010-07-02 Thread Chris Hill
Robin Paulson wrote: there's a mapper near me, who's very active adding data. the problem is, he's making a lot of mistakes, such as roads not joining correctly at junctions, bridges drawn as a separate parallel line to the highway they should relate to, and other fairly unambiguous errors. up

Re: [OSM-talk] correcting/helping inexperienced mappers

2010-07-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com wrote: there's a mapper near me, who's very active adding data. the problem is, he's making a lot of mistakes, such as roads not joining correctly at junctions, bridges drawn as a separate parallel line to the highway they

Re: [OSM-talk] correcting/helping inexperienced mappers

2010-07-02 Thread Maarten Deen
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 07:30:11 -0400, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com wrote: there's a mapper near me, who's very active adding data. the problem is, he's making a lot of mistakes, such as roads not joining correctly

Re: [OSM-talk] correcting/helping inexperienced mappers

2010-07-02 Thread Joseph Reeves
- show them keepright.ipax.at And http://matt.dev.openstreetmap.org/dupe_nodes/ On 2 July 2010 12:41, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 07:30:11 -0400, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com wrote:

[OSM-talk] correcting/helping inexperienced mappers

2010-07-02 Thread Nathan Edgars II
Joseph Reeves wrote: On 2 July 2010 12:41, Maarten Deen mdeen at xs4all.nl wrote: - show them keepright.ipax.at And http://matt.dev.openstreetmap.org/dupe_nodes/ God no. Not until it distinguishes between bad dupes (highway-highway at county lines, to use a US example) and OK dupes

Re: [OSM-talk] correcting/helping inexperienced mappers

2010-07-02 Thread Pieren
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: God no. Not until it distinguishes between bad dupes (highway-highway at county lines, to use a US example) and OK dupes (highway-boundary). Ok dupes do not exist (excepted for z). highway-boundary share the same

Re: [OSM-talk] correcting/helping inexperienced mappers

2010-07-02 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: God no. Not until it distinguishes between bad dupes (highway-highway at county lines, to use a US example) and OK dupes (highway-boundary). Ok dupes do

Re: [OSM-talk] correcting/helping inexperienced mappers

2010-07-02 Thread Pieren
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote: Nope. We've been over this many times on the talk-us list, and there have been enough examples of boundaries not actually following highways, despite TIGER claiming they do, and highways being realigned but the

[OSM-talk] correcting/helping inexperienced mappers

2010-07-01 Thread Robin Paulson
there's a mapper near me, who's very active adding data. the problem is, he's making a lot of mistakes, such as roads not joining correctly at junctions, bridges drawn as a separate parallel line to the highway they should relate to, and other fairly unambiguous errors. up till now, i've

Re: [OSM-talk] correcting/helping inexperienced mappers

2010-07-01 Thread John Smith
On 2 July 2010 14:07, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com wrote: up till now, i've corrected mistakes as i've seen them, but he does so much it's become a hell of a job, and feels like pointless duplication of effort That's not helping him, generally if I spot mistakes I send a short email