On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:19 PM, John F. Eldredge <j...@jfeldredge.com> wrote: > If you can map a street in just five seconds, using just three clicks and a > keypress, this implies that you are mapping just the end points, with just a > calculated line between them. Very few streets in the world are absolutely > straight, with no curves at all. This also means that you aren't bothering > to join streets at intersections, so none of the streets you map will be > routable. Plus, from what you say, you aren't creating any tags on the roads > you map. Most of the rest of us try to do a better job of mapping than that.
Good grief. Where do I start? By apologising for my loose wording: "click, click, click" wasn't meant to indicate precisely three clicks. It's often four. >Very few streets in the world are absolutely straight They are in grid-pattern suburbia and in agricultural areas on flat land. Prepare to have your mind blown: http://osm.org/go/uHo5Jhc- http://osm.org/go/uG4IcTi7- >This also means that you aren't bothering to join streets at intersections, You can create a branch from one street, and connect it to another street (ie, a straight side street) with a shift-click, and one more click. Potlatch 2. >Plus, from what you say, you aren't creating any tags on the roads you map. That's what the "R" keypress is for. Repeat tags. highway=residential,source=Bing. Sometimes there's a surface=unpaved. >Most of the rest of us try to do a better job of mapping than that. The only way your whole email makes sense is if you think I'm a retarded monkey who failed OSM 101. I mean really: you think I'm sitting here creating a bunch of straight ways (even though the road is curved), that aren't connected to anything, and have no tags at all (not even highway=road). I'd be insulted, but your suggestions are just too ludicrous.If you were just trolling, then well played. Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
