OpenStreetMap
Argh! After putting this junction right twice I've had to take desperate measures. (see map location and click edit)
I wish yahoo tracers wouldn't assume that other mappers are wrong when they haven't been to a location recently themselves. This roundabout was changed to a big crossroads more than a year ago!
Grrrr!
Discussion
Comentèro de Minh Nguyen lo 23 May 2009 a 09:51
Perhaps you could try adding
note=Yahoo! is out of date here.or something like that.Comentèro de c2r lo 23 May 2009 a 10:36
Have you let the users know? h in potlatch to find who did it!
Comentèro de RichardB lo 23 May 2009 a 11:47
I guess you'd have to be blind to change it back again now! But there must be plenty of places where Yahoo is now out of date. I can think of several. In addition, I can also think of areas where GPX traces are now out of date.
Some way of removing out of date GPX points would be good. Could be tricky to implement though.
Comentèro de RichardB lo 23 May 2009 a 11:50
I've also noticed that your junction has a set of unconnected nodes at the northernmost highway=traffic_signals node. Can I assume that these should be merged?
Comentèro de daveemtb lo 23 May 2009 a 12:44
I had put an explanatory note on all the nodes the first time I mapped it correctly! Hence the rather silly writing all over it now!
I think the uncorrected nodes were an error in Potlatch when I reverted the ways. They need deleting.
Comentèro de Andrew Chadwick lo 26 May 2009 a 15:30
Perhaps it would be cleaner to draw a small bounding box with a note explaining that Yahoo!'s imagery is out-of-date here. Much like osm.org/browse/way/32737099 only in reverse...
Comentèro de daveemtb lo 26 May 2009 a 18:31
I'm sure it would be neater, but people weren't reading the annotations on the nodes of the junction. I'll clean it up eventually, but thought more unmissable "hint" would be useful effective the short term to discourage reversion.
Comentèro de daveemtb lo 26 May 2009 a 18:32
I should add that my initial exasperated diary post was not a complaint at anyone who does Yahoo tracing - I do quite a lot myself. It's just important that people don't assume it's right and the existing mapping is wrong.