>Large-scale I-plucked-this-out-of-my-ass "creative mapping" bearing no >relation to the facts on the ground, like someone has just done in >Cheadle, Staffordshire, UK: yeah, that probably deserves copyright >protection. And taking outside and shooting. > >cheers >Richard On a complete tangent to this conversation... I was curious about the area Richard mentioned, so looked it up: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.98283&lon=-1.99189&zoom=15&layers=B000FTF And was amazed that someone has obviously put a lot of work into this, and yet it bears very little geometric similarity to this (for comparison only!):
http://www.multimap.com/maps/?qs=cheadle&countryCode=GB#map=52.98372,-2.00288|15|4&bd=useful_information&loc=GB:52.98896:-1.98721:14|cheadle|Cheadle,%20Stoke-on-Trent,%20Staffordshire,%20England,%20ST10%201 I know which I am inclined to believe... It also appears they have an unfortunate problem with caps lock on their computer, but that's beside the point. It seems someone is in desperate need of a GPS unit! :-s I wonder how easy it will be to improve the accuracy of data such as this, where the topology and road naming is probably mainly correct (I imagine they sketched maps as they went) but the geometry is way off. When I get a moment I'll have to look and see whether any GPS traces already in the system can be used to improve this area. Maybe we could even make a significant improvement with Landsat images? I do think innacurate data is better than none, but this area clearly needs some work! Regards, Dave
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