[Talk-us] Google maps source

2013-06-04 Thread Brian May
I just ran into an area where someone tagged streets with source=google maps. Looks like an un-aware new user who only had 8 changesets over two days and that was it. What to do about this? http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Hercumike/edits Brian

Re: [Talk-us] Google maps source

2013-06-04 Thread the Old Topo Depot
Brian, If good quality TIGER data exists for this area and can validate the changes then I suggest it's OK to change the source to TIGER, otherwise it seems prudent to backout all the changesets tagged as sourced from Google Maps. The one-way flows can sometimes be inferred from pavement

Re: [Talk-us] Google maps source

2013-06-04 Thread Rick Marshall
Brian, I have done that before. If the road geometry is incorrect in OpenStreetMap due to inaccuracies with the source TIGER Files and it is either incorrect or non-existent on Bing, but correct on Google Maps, and we use bing imagery for tracing the road geometry, but Google Maps to discover

Re: [Talk-us] Google maps source

2013-06-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Rick Marshall wrote: If we use bing imagery for tracing the road geometry, but Google Maps to discover the name of the road is it incorrect to use source=google? You are not tracing a road geometry from Google Maps, but you might be using it for other attribute data.