Ed Loach wrote: >Sent: 05 April 2010 7:48 PM >To: David Earl; Graham Jones >Cc: TimSC; talk-gb@openstreetmap.org >Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] building shapes from OS Street View > >While I tweeted a couple of days ago that the shape of our house is wrong >on Streetview, I do want to >A) trace the simplified rectangles a street at a time. >B) use walking papers to add the house numbers. >I see this as probably quicker and even with simplified shapes better >results than me stopping by every house and adding a custom text waypoint >with text of house number (osmmapper), as I canwrite while walking rather >than stopping for hopefully best possible GPS fix. > >I wouldn't locally want building outlines locally for streets I haven't got >lined up to house number by foot, as it would make keeping track of >progress harder. >
I can see myself doing this. I also think it will encourage folks to go out at collect street data. A building block even a badly drawn one, is still better than no block at all. >Sent from my HTC > >-----Original Message----- >From: David Earl <da...@frankieandshadow.com> >Sent: 05 April 2010 19:14 >To: Graham Jones <grahamjones...@googlemail.com> >Cc: TimSC <mapp...@sheerman-chase.org.uk>; talk-gb@openstreetmap.org >Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] building shapes from OS Street View > >On 05/04/2010 18:41, Graham Jones wrote: >> I would like to see a plugin for josm that takes a raster input >> (landsat, yahoo, StreetView) and processes it into 'draft' ways around >> areas of constant(ish) colour - the user then tidies it up and tags it >> before uploading (ie I would be very wary of a 'blind' import!). > >On 05/04/2010 18:52, Robert Scott wrote: > > What about supervised 'imports', using a josm/potlatch plugin > >Much, much better IMO. I dread the idea of any automated imports for the >UK into OSM. Tools to automate tracing while being manually aware of >what is already there and the flaws in the automation is so much better >than trying to import and screwing up what's already there, duplicating >stuff and adding poor quality automation flaws. > >David > >_______________________________________________ >Talk-GB mailing list >Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > >_______________________________________________ >Talk-GB mailing list >Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 9.0.791 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2792 - Release Date: 04/05/10 >07:32:00 _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb