>We had a discussion about this point during the Kidderminster mapping party >on Saturday. Our decision (relating to the Black Country in our case) was >that we would use OS OpenData StreetView, especially in partly mapped areas, >but we would record some info on the wiki for each area covered so that we >know which locations (slices of the cake) need still to have a ground >survey. It also permits a local mapper to bag a spot for ground surveying if >they would prefer to work with a blank canvas. I'd encourage mappers who are >tempted to map "off-piste" to document what they are doing on an appropriate >wiki page for the area in question. That at least informs others that come >along later.
It's an interesting point about OS. There's a mapping party in Andover (Hants) in a few weeks and my own feeling is that it would be more "fun" to do on the ground surveying at a pre-arranged party rather than just copying from OS Street View. I suppose for pure "getting the mapping done" one should use OS but my own preference is just to use it to check whether GPS trace artefacts were artefacts(e.g. a kink in a street I surveyed at Haslemere last week) and to check for blank streets - particularly as one cannot guarantee the accuracy of the OS data anyway. Nick _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
