Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: > I note that near where I live, someone has traced the edge of the high > resolution imagery and tagged it:
> Do people agree with this example? If so I'll add it to Oxford and any > others I come across. I'd disagree, and even go so far as to say tagging things like this is dangerous: * It's not geodata -- it doesn't represent any physical or administrative feature of the area in question, so it shouldn't go in the database * It will go out of date relatively quickly * It's of limited use anyway -- what are you going to do with this info? Areas covered by high-res images still need surveying for street names, restrictions, amenities, and so on. If you're tracing images, you can see where the high-res section ends without needing a Way to show you. * Depending on how large the high-res area is, it can mean mappers having to download a way which is much, much larger than the area they're editing: Someone has put in such a way for the London area, which ends in the Guildford area, so I often end up downloading a 281-node way which is 40 miles across when making changes to a single square-mile section of map. This kind of administrivia doesn't belong in the map database itself. Jono _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
