On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 2:47 AM, Darrin Smith <bel...@beldin.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:35:01 +0900 > "Andrew Laughton" <laughton.and...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Yes, very easy to fix, and I have fixed other roads that were also > > wrong, the worry is, how many others need fixing and where are they. > > Maybe a polite message could solve the problem, or maybe a rough > > position is better than no position, and there is no problem. > > I think there's actually 2 issues you've hit on in this. One you > outline here and the other is the issue of what the original author > used as a source for the estimation. > > On the issue you have listed here I'd suggest at some level it would > be a good thing to have rough estimations drawn in, at least for major > features (which landsat can provide if nothing else), an empty block of > map just doesn't help anyone at all really. Data can always get more > accurate as time goes by as someone with more specific information > refines the paths, much like you are doing in this case. When new data > obviously over-rides older data in the map people should not have > hesitation correcting things. > Incremental improvement is the wiki-way. And even what we consider to be good mapping at the moment will get improved over time as better technology and better sources come along. A straight line between two places is better than no line. 80n > > The other issue is a potentially nastier one, especially given that > landsat supports something approximating the traces you made in this > case, I worry that your suspicions may be correct, or perhaps that the > person who drew it in based it upon personal experience from a long > time ago (dodgy source at best ;). I think a polite message suggesting > that you are concerned about the source of his data might not go astray > in this case. > > -- > Darrin Smith > s...@salseast.org > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >
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