Am 20.07.2012 10:17, schrieb Ian Sergeant:
On 20 July 2012 16:19, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com
<mailto:stevag...@gmail.com>> wrote:
IMHO it would be very beneficial to have overseas armchair mappers in
whatever capacity they like. There are so many little roads around the
place - I'd much rather have them mapped, with some inaccuracies (eg,
access permissions wrong), than not mapped at all.
We're not going to agree on the survey vs aerial thing today. We
haven't for the last however many years. My opinion is being routed
down an impassable or non-existent road is an order of magnitude
worse than being sent on a longer route due to a road being absent.
I would tend to agree, but on the other hand from a pure volume (not
importance) point of view I suspect that a very very large part of the
damage are residential roads with essentially no danger of being routed
to nirwana.
I would, however, make the point to those willing to help, that from
my initial scans there is so much to do that doesn't require any
semblance of local knowledge. There are lots and lots of sections of
coastline missing for starters. Hundreds of broken islands. Roads
that are missing nodes travelling way off their path. Roads under
lakes and waterways. Railway station names. Place names. Split
ways. Roundabouts. Missing and incomplete waterways and lakes. I've
hours already working on stuff that doesn't require any local
knowledge, and I haven't made a tiny dent.
There is no reason such stuff can't be farmed out to interested mappers.
I have a server on order that will be ready in a couple of hours. I
suspect that I'll have the tasking manager running early this evening CEST.
Simon
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