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Armchair mapping will always result in bad maps. I usually try to use mapwithme and leave photo notes describing issues when I travel, I take photos of fences a
by pastage 2y ago
Armchair mapping will always result in bad maps. I usually try to use mapwithme and leave photo notes describing issues when I travel, I take photos of fences and play grounds, other people take scenic pictures.
So it might very well be automatic mapping, just saying that I know my armchair mapping can be pretty bad when I gonand check it OTG.
- Aachen 2y agoBy bad, do you mean incomplete or that it's often actually wrong? Because my experience is that it's very complementary and I see things on aerial that I didn't irl and of course also vice versa. Mapping from the air seems to work well to me North Korea should be an interesting example, I guess we have no chance of anyone commenting on it but there's people who've been mapping it from actual satellite imagery, so very poor quality compared to the airplane-based georeferenced photographs we're used to in most countries. If armchair mapping makes bad maps, that will be the best example to have someone check out, but alas. (The visitor-accessible parts may not count as much because a mapper could have visited those)
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