Changeset: 54617604
Woodury; Removed pokemon related objects
Closed by Constable
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changesets_count | 6196 |
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created_by | iD 2.5.1 |
host | http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit |
imagery_used | Bing aerial imagery |
locale | it |
Discussion
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Comment from mysterytriogf
dont remove the houses. I added them to contribute to the pokemon map
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Comment from Constable
hi there, thanks for your message. I'm not here to delete your edits without any good reason, I'm here to improve the map as well.
Here you can see the details of this edit http://nrenner.github.io/achavi/?changeset=54617604
As you can see I did delete just a small part of them and the reason is because they were not properly mapped. The School was tagged as industrial, which is definitely not correct, and the other buildings were just too sloppy.
The 99% of buildings need to be squared (select the building and press "s" on your keyboard), you are supposed to do it before saving your edits, plus you should have used some more appropriate tags for those buildings which I removed.
Here you can find the right building tag
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/BuildingsIf you need some help I can help you out, that's for sure, I'm not here to start a nonsense/stupid/time wasting edit war.
Please make sure you respect the basic rules of mapping and I'll help you out map this whole area if you'll need some help.
Feel free to have a look at the beginner guide http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners%27_guideOther than that you should understand that pokemon uses a 6 months old version of this map, so, editing here is not going to affect the map you see when playing pokemon. At the same time, OSM mappers are supposed to add only real elements, so you're not allowed to map things because you would like to have them in the game. That would be called vandalism and your edits would be removed.
Please remember to add only real elements.Feel free to ask if you need some help
Thank you
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Comment from mysterytriogf
Question: Do you play Pokemon Go and they confirmed they would update the OSM map in the future. Thanks for your help :)
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Comment from Constable
Hi, no I don't play Pokemon, I'm just a mapper here and I'm seeing a ton of players which signed up and started vandalizing our map because they want to let pokemons spam near their houses. I'm pretty much double checking all the suspicious/pokemon related edits, in order to make sure that our map stay true to reality.
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Comment from freebeer
Hi mysterytheatregf,
One very helpful tip I can give you to make your map editing much better is to use a different background image.
In your area, and for that matter, the entire state of Connecticut is covered by highly-detailed aerial imagery with I believe 10cm resolution, far better than what you use.
This is available as ESRI World Imagery or similar. The details of how you select that in your editor I cannot say (perhaps change background).
With this you can zoom in two additional steps to zoomlevel 21, so that a building can occupy your entire screen.
Then you can see far more detail (I believe 16 times linearly) than in the Bing default background, and you can trace things much more precisely.
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That alone would help you avoid the problem of a house and a garage and a pool ending connected -- I separated the pool and made it match the background as a proper rectangle, but that was not a trivial task; Constable had less patience to correct the joined buildings, when it is easier to delete them and redraw them from a better background.
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Keep in mind this is not the Pokemon map, it is a general OpenStreetMap map used by thousands of applications, as well as numerous professional businesses, emergency services, and your Pokemon is but one, and the only one for which having absolutely correct data is not the ultimate goal.
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And this is why I gave the correct tagging of a pool to all the items you had called lakes, as well as better positioned them.
Drawing a cornfield first as a woods, then changing that to be a park, is fake data, which we do not accept because it is clear that it is an agricultural field.
In short, work on mapping carefully (I still have room for improvement) and always map reality correctly, and we will welcome your participation.
thanks!
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