Hi Russell, Grant spoke to someone from Y! Maps at SOTM09 about it. He said Grant should email him and he would pass it on.
Another way would be to change Potlatch. It's a pity that no one else added this functionality already. So I think the most practical would be to import the data and get the word out that everyone should be cautious. Put something on OpenStreetBugs and something on the South African part of the wiki. Perhaps add "note" or other tags. On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Russell Cloran <rclo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Great to see the Brainstorm article, good work Heather! > > It reminded me that we have some data from eThekwini and I haven't > heard anything from anybody about it in a while. I've just had a look > at the map of Durban, and it seems like someone is doing some > excellent work around the Berea and Sherwood areas. > > So, here's the problem... > > Yahoo's imagery is a few meters off around Durban. At first I thought > the municipality data was a little off, but then I compared GPS > traces, Yahoo's imagery and the municipality data -- it seems GPS > traces correlate better with the municipality data than the Yahoo > imagery. > > I put off working any more on the import as I was a little confused: > If we import the Durban data, we end up with great coverage of many > roads, which is hopefully pretty accurate. Unfortunately, some people > may come along and compare this with the Yahoo imagery, and try to > correct a few roads, landing us with inaccurate data. > > How do we proceed? > > Unfortunately now instead of only having the Kloof/Gillitts/Pinetown > area to merge, we now have a lot more :( > > Cheers, > > Russell > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ZA mailing list > Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za >
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