Re: [talk-au] Tracing items.

On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 14:38:20 +1000 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Just a general comment and a couple of suggestions. Having been adding items into osm for the last year I've noticed people spending a lot of time tracing roads from landsat, yahoo, etc. While this is admirable

Re: [talk-au] Kangaroo Island SA

On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Darrin Smith wrote: It's tragic to see that as usual with most of the people who dive in they haven't actually checked out the AU or SA wiki which make it pretty clear what should be primary roads in rural areas and have gone primary crazy... I did the B23, and if I didnt

Re: [talk-au] Kangaroo Island SA

On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 18:29:12 +1000 Liz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Darrin Smith wrote: It's tragic to see that as usual with most of the people who dive in they haven't actually checked out the AU or SA wiki which make it pretty clear what should be primary roads in rural

Re: [talk-au] Tracing items.

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 5:38 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Just a general comment and a couple of suggestions. Having been adding items into osm for the last year I've noticed people spending a lot of time tracing roads from landsat, yahoo, etc. While this is admirable work is this

Re: [talk-au] Tracing items.

On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 23:25:06 +0100 80n [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 5:38 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Just a general comment and a couple of suggestions. Having been adding items into osm for the last year I've noticed people spending a lot of time tracing

Re: [talk-au] GPS drive tracks are not accurate.

I got very keen and loaded lots of roads by tracing them off Yahoo maps, making sure the trace was an accurate reflection of reality. Then someone overwrote my plots with a GPS track that was the result of driving these roads once, with no understanding of the unavoidable inaccuracies in GPS

Re: [talk-au] Tracing items.

On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, 80n wrote: I'm not saying that Yahoo tracers should not do roads, but please do lakes and buildings and stuff first.  Give the GPS guys a chance to do the roads. It's a big planet we are not going to run out of unmapped space any time soon. 80n This weekend I'm going to

Re: [talk-au] Tracing items.

And if someone enjoys tracing roads or some other feature exclusively are we to tell them to go away because it's not our idea of the best way to spend their time on OSM? Missed the point of my suggestion totally didn't you. I am not saying don't do it just that if you want to improve the