Re: [talk-au] Openstreetmap Quality Issues

2013-10-21 Thread Nick Hocking
http://www.gazette.vic.gov.au/gazette/Gazettes2013/GG2013S204.pdf Not sure what all this is about but may be of interest (it does mention Diggers Way). ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Openstreetmap Quality Issues

2013-10-21 Thread stev391
side as highway track. Good luck for the weekend and hopefully once you have surveyed the junction it will remain correct... Steve. - Original Message - From: Neil Penman Sent: 10/22/13 02:38 PM To: stev...@email.com Subject: Re: [talk-au] Openstreetmap Quality Issues Hi Steve, I left

Re: [talk-au] Openstreetmap Quality Issues

2013-10-21 Thread Neil Penman
> > > - Original Message - > > From: Neil Penman > > Sent: 10/22/13 12:10 PM > > To: Nick Hocking > > Subject: Re: [talk-au] Openstreetmap Quality Issues > > Hi Nick, > > Yep thats a good idea to add the survey tag. Interestingly the ways

Re: [talk-au] Openstreetmap Quality Issues

2013-10-21 Thread Neil Penman
e changes I made to the > intersection, as long as the traffic routing is consistent along the ways. > > Regards > Steve. > > > > > > - Original Message - > > From: Neil Penman > > Sent: 10/22/13 12:10 PM > > To: Nick Hocking > > Subject: Re:

Re: [talk-au] Openstreetmap Quality Issues

2013-10-21 Thread stev391
Hocking Subject: Re: [talk-au] Openstreetmap Quality Issues Hi Nick, Yep thats a good idea to add the survey tag. Interestingly the ways did not not have a source tag up until jan 2013 however Steve91 added the source of Nearmap then. Which I wasn't aware we still had access to. I'll be headi

Re: [talk-au] Openstreetmap Quality Issues

2013-10-21 Thread Neil Penman
Hi Nick, Yep thats a good idea to add the survey tag. Interestingly the ways did not not have a source tag up until jan 2013 however Steve91 added the source of Nearmap then. Which I wasn't aware we still had access to. I'll be heading past the intersection later this week and will check it out.

Re: [talk-au] Openstreetmap Quality Issues

2013-10-21 Thread Nick Hocking
Hi Neil, I think the way to get this fixed permanently could be... Fix it one more time, re-add the note saying that the imagery is out of date and that this intersection has been surveyed. Change the source tag from nearmap to survey. Now even though one of the mnappers has a fairly colourful hi

Re: [talk-au] Openstreetmap Quality Issues

2013-10-19 Thread David Bannon
I agree. Armchair mapping is useful for features difficult to survey and perhaps appropriate for (eg) roads not yet surveyed but it should never be applied to overwrite features already present, features probably accuratly mapped already. The OSM wiki page on Armchair mapping used to make that

Re: [talk-au] Openstreetmap Quality Issues

2013-10-18 Thread Neil Penman
I did that after the first revert. However it didn't help :). I think it important to try to develop a culture that existing map data should not be changed unless you know you are improving it. If the map shows a road network that differs from the Satellite in a way that may be due to design the

Re: [talk-au] Openstreetmap Quality Issues

2013-10-18 Thread John Henderson
On 19/10/13 11:20, Neil Penman wrote: Unfortunately the culture seems to have become that any accurate local mapping should be replaced with unthinking tracing over the top of obsolete satellite imagery. I find that it sometimes helps to add an appropriately-worded note to the nodes or ways in

[talk-au] Openstreetmap Quality Issues

2013-10-18 Thread Neil Penman
There used to be a view that Openstreetmap could produce higher quality maps through local knowledge so we could eliminate the sort of comical routing errors that would have people driving into rivers. Unfortunately the culture seems to have become that any accurate local mapping should be replac