Contentious issue.

Some of us actually want to, you know, _use_ the map. And sourcing street names from Locator is a way of quickly getting areas actually usable for something.

This is insane. What mapping method were you using/what equipment were you carrying?

This nearmap issue is nonsense. Nearmap stuff will not need to be deleted from OpenStreetMap on the license switch. Whoever told you so is being disingenuous.

You mean I'm partially responsible for de-JohnSmith-ing our community?

*sniff* you've made me so happy.

JohnSmith, in all the harping on you've done about licensing in the past, you've never given me any reason to think you know remotely what you're talking about.

Bye!

Doing sidewalks like this doesn't tend to turn out very well, and it creates a huge mess. Generally, sidewalks are assumed to be present on most roads.

The major problem with it is it screws with routing. A routing engine sending you down a "sidewalk" footway has no way of knowing that you can actually cross the street (get to the sidewalk footway) at any point along the street, and as a result ends up sending you on some ridiculous roundabout routes.

Congratulations, 6online - you've just shown yourselves to be spammers.

Thanks spammer.

That's one of the best OSM cakes I've seen.

Are you sure they're not from OS OpenData Streetview/Locator?

I did the majority of bedford from gps tracks. I have since verified most of them from OS streetview. Which roads are we talking about?

Welcome!

Ireland is a treasure trove of mapping potential.

I met a man on the guided busway to St Ives...

Except you're not getting the data for free.

All these things you're talking about take developer time to implement, server capacity to process and using all these different local datums around the world would massively (massively) complicate the project's data model.

Doing this for accuracy that almost nobody will ever use (NOBODY should be using osm for surveying) is not a top developer priority.

Where I say detail, I mean accuracy.

No. Almost nobody contributing to OSM has a way of generating data with this high detail. The number representation of the coordinates in the DB, depending where you are on the planet, just about gives you this level of accuracy if you're lucky.

2006? Heh, that's pretty new for yahoo imagery.

In fact if I recall correctly the _original_ editing java applet (what we had before potlatch) was written in processing.

"hope i can enjoying stay here for a while."

Goodbye spammer.