On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Dave Swarthout <daveswarth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sometimes as I labor over doing these areas correctly I wonder if someday > it will all be made obsolete. I don't know when or if it will happen but I > have to think that some point in the future OSM will employ aerial imagery > as does Google. Then, instead of a white, featureless background in areas > no OSMer has "filled in" we'll see the earth's surface as it really is with > our routable ways overlaid upon it. David, No doubt someone will do it for a routing and similar applications. The other data we enter is valuable for other uses. For example, determine how land a government sets aside for recreation. Beside, sometimes a rendered map looks much better than an aerial image. Take Epcot Center from Google's perspective, https://www.google.com/maps/@28.3716206,-81.5502018,1346m/data=!3m1!1e3 and compare it to OSM, http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1228099#map=16/28.3703/-81.5488. Personally I like the OSM rendering. Clifford -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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