On 01/06/2019 11:11, Jez Nicholson wrote:
Brighton has also just gained a sidewalk
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/JAn which i'm not overly impressed
with....or am I being a Luddite?
I personally wouldn't map sidewalks in a dense UK city like that (though
some people do, with the intention of micromapping all the dropped kerbs
etc.). It's perhaps worth mentioning that at least some of the sidewalk
edits there are by someone who has tended to contribute well-meaning but
not entirely accurate edits from afar - it took me lots of additional
surveys of Sutton in Ashfield* to verify that many of their previous
"roads" simply weren't.
At first glance quite a lot of joins seem to be missing, and some shops
were located between the sidewalk and the road (which you've just
fixed). Maybe if you're going to add a certain level of detail, you
can't just ignore everything else on the map, although it's pretty
common to do updates in stages - when mapping rural areas I'll often do
streams first (armchair), then roads and paths (survey) then extra
detail such as field boundaries, gates, stiles etc. (a mix of both).
Best Regards,
Andy
* you could therefore perhaps describe it as "successful armchair
mapping" :)
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