Oak Circle at Quail Hill Drive. Oak Circle is very short, not even 1/10 mile long. You show it going all the way back to a friends house on his privet property.
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Oak Circle at Quail Hill Drive. Oak Circle is very short, not even 1/10 mile long. You show it going all the way back to a friends house on his privet property.
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Comment from alexkemp on 26 August 2016 at 16:04
Hi there, @NathanO
It’s your map, my friend, so fix it! I use a £20 GBP android smartphone + osmtracker (free). Once you set the track going it will drop breadcrumbs (create a GPX export once complete, which you can pull into JOSM) and you can measure that street exactly. Alter it so it is correct. Not too difficult, and deeply satisfying to fix. Add the houses + house-numbers & other interesting stuff whilst you are at it.
Comment from Warin61 on 26 August 2016 at 22:42
Easy Alex. He has 3 diary entries, no edits and only recently accepted terms. So very new to OSM.
NathanO … Three things
Welcome! Hope you find ‘us’ friendly and informative.
The vast majority of people here come to fix things on the map like yourself. The best person to make those fixes is yourself. You know what needs to be done, you just need to find out how to do it. I believe an on line editor like iD might be your best bet for easy editing of non complicated things. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ID Neither Alex nor I would feel comfortable making changes in Texas … we are both a long way away. The person ‘on the ground’ (you) know far more about the local things.
Data sources .. best to use the stuff that is all ready available to OSM. There are legal things that need to be done to have data sources legally usable in OSM. I’d not peruse this unless you have the time and inclination? It certainly is not my thing.
Comment from BushmanK on 27 August 2016 at 03:41
@Warin61,
While I do agree, that in the general case it could be hard to map something on the other side of the Earth, in certain cases is could be quite simple (however, it is still impossible to reduce uncertainty to zero). In Texas, they have quite detailed aerial imagery. Using it and looking for a fence, dividing private land from the street, it is possible to split Oak Circle into two pieces: Oak Circle itself and private driveway, going deeper into a property, mentioned above. There are many situations where we can’t really rely on imagery, but this doesn’t seem to be a case.
I’m aware of certain “cult of the survey” and negative attitude towards “chair mapping”, but every type of mapping is equally useful and effective if used within its limitations.