I'm upset that the blue(95%+) area in the North East turns out to be Darlington, which I believe is tracers that started OS once it was available. I've used the OS Locator tool around Durham, mainly in JOSM, to get towards that 95%, and I turned a bit addicted. It makes me worried that I might go beyond reasonable edits(country roads with no signs, broken signs, my own mistakes/omissions, etc) and just stay at home in my arm chair (it's been cold outside). One village I know isn't done, so it's reminded me to go out and do that. I much rather prefer to create roads than to adjust their locations, so I think it's better I start with my GPS trace rather than OS Locator.
Peter, I know the ITO locator layer only shows missing names and that you're not just checking name=* (if the OS has a different name for some reason). What is the list of other name tags that get used? Gregory. On 3 February 2011 14:08, Matt Amos <zerebub...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com> wrote: > > Dair Grant <dair@...> writes: > > > >>> There is suggestion raised by a number of people, but refuted by others > that > >>> imports reduce the number of contributors. > >> > >>It has been denied, not refuted. I think the closest there is to real > data > >>on the effect is: > >> > >>< > http://www.asklater.com/matt/wordpress/2009/09/imports-and-the-community-ii > > > > > > We do also have real data on the effect of not doing imports - the towns > which > > are almost completely unmapped. While importing data from OS may not be > ideal, > > doing nothing and waiting for somebody to go and map it doesn't seem like > a > > successful strategy either, if the past five years are a guide. > > > > For prosperous city areas there is no difficulty finding a local mapper > who will > > take on a new hobby to get away from the computer screen for a few hours. > But > > OSM has a real coverage gap in socially disadvantaged areas (Fake SteveC > has a > > pithier name for them). But we want a complete map and not just a map of > where > > the typical OSM contributor lives. If using some of the work already > done by > > the Ordnance Survey helps us get there, that has to be a good thing. > > my experience of the OS data traced into my local area is that it's > been almost entirely inaccurate. if this is the case where a typical > OSM contributor lives then i'd assume that people tracing over OS have > introduced several hundred inaccurate features in London alone. > perhaps if the people enamoured of tracing OS would organise a mapping > party, or reach out to local community groups (people still live in > socially disadvantaged areas, right?) then we could create a complete, > living map, rather than a road-network-complete, dead one. > > cheers, > > matt > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > -- Gregory o...@livingwithdragons.com http://www.livingwithdragons.com
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