On 3 May 2008, at 16:58, Sven Grüner wrote: > Karl Newman schrieb: >> Or maybe the tracks need a moderation/voting system. If the tracks >> are voted >> down below a certain threshold, they won't be downloaded? Would >> need some >> careful thought to prevent malicious voting down of good tracks, >> though. >> Even if the editors had a way to hide certain tracks, that would be >> helpful. >> I've seen a few low-quality tracks in my area that I would like to >> make go >> away. > > The user could (optionally) specify this threshold when requesting > data. > This way one could avoid bad tracks when enough good ones available > and > fall back on the bad ones when there's no alternative. > > Alternatively a request would still return all Tracks but each track > is > returned along with it's quality level so that the editors can blank > out > certain levels on demand. > > I believe that somewhere in the distant future when data maintenance > becomes more important than data creation the track handling will > improve dramatically. >
Talking of optional downloads, I'd like an option to not download any trace made before date x, within bounding box y due to the fact that there is a change in the road layout in the area. Shaun _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk