-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chris Morley wrote: | David Earl wrote: | > I've said before and I'll say again: we need a way of | > asserting "this area is complete" (for one or more | > definitions of completeness). | | Andy Robinson (blackadder) wrote: | > The only way that we are going to individually or | > collectively state the completeness of a specific area | > is to carry out a verification process. It doesn't have | > to be done by third parties or even different contributors | > but it does need to be done by someone. | > We need a simple tag to display verification, perhaps | > the username and a date, say verification=blackadder_20080111 | > or similar. | | Martin Trautmann wrote: | > Is OSM that far that we need verification and quality ensurance? | > We are still far from completeness, which might be a primary goal. | | I have started a new thread with a measure for completeness in the title | because this is an important topic for OSM. But the response to the | recent posts quoted above, and my raising of it last July, has been only | luke-warm.
Rather than creating special ways, just to show completeness, why not mark the ways that are already there with weather or not they are completely connected. I.e. I know that all the roads and footpaths that connect to my road are on the map, so I could put a tag on the road saying complete_connected=roads,footpaths or something. We could then make a map with all the roads that are marked as not completed coloured. Also, if we could make a tag for a road that you have seen one end of but haven't mapped down, that would be useful. Some people use 3 unconnected nodes as a sort of ... symbol on the map, but this doesn't work very well. A short way that was tagged specially would indicate to people that that area needed surveying because the roads weren't complete. If a road had these for all the roads joining it, I would mark it as complete in the scheme above. Robert (Jamie) Munro -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHiR9Lz+aYVHdncI0RAi1UAKCpO0t8ItrMQL3n8ZSAr6nlpaJcDACgjdVb gBtFlc6IFQUKOHOrszPSC3Q= =isju -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk