Thanks for the continuing info. I'll try and register for FTW tonight and roadworks.org is good to know about.
However, whilst it's all useful info, these are ways of finding out about roadworks or notifying them on the map. The specific reason I have made my suggestion is as a way to pull all of this information into one place so that edits made to the map are documented in one place where we can all find it - and where anyone can make changes and document them as part of the same issue.
For example, there's currently a map problem here. People have apparently been turning left onto a walking trail segment. GSV from the summer shows lots of construction work in the area: presumably the AM has done this to deal with some of it. But unless I PM him, I have to go and find out all the info myself. And maybe he didn't actually change the road-type - he might have just corrected the road name. If it was documented in a topic in a Roadworks sub-forum (and linked to from a UR), I could find all the info there. If a closed road has re-opened early, I could edit the map and add the information to the topic. Then, when the original editor comes along to check the situation he will know what I've done, and why.
Right now, I can think of 7 different roadworks in my area that have caused edits to the map (some I have done, some I am simply aware of). For each of them I've had to independently find out what's going on to understand what I need to edit - or what someone else has changed.
So what do you think of the main idea guys? (Come on Roy: you must have an opinion )
However, whilst it's all useful info, these are ways of finding out about roadworks or notifying them on the map. The specific reason I have made my suggestion is as a way to pull all of this information into one place so that edits made to the map are documented in one place where we can all find it - and where anyone can make changes and document them as part of the same issue.
For example, there's currently a map problem here. People have apparently been turning left onto a walking trail segment. GSV from the summer shows lots of construction work in the area: presumably the AM has done this to deal with some of it. But unless I PM him, I have to go and find out all the info myself. And maybe he didn't actually change the road-type - he might have just corrected the road name. If it was documented in a topic in a Roadworks sub-forum (and linked to from a UR), I could find all the info there. If a closed road has re-opened early, I could edit the map and add the information to the topic. Then, when the original editor comes along to check the situation he will know what I've done, and why.
Right now, I can think of 7 different roadworks in my area that have caused edits to the map (some I have done, some I am simply aware of). For each of them I've had to independently find out what's going on to understand what I need to edit - or what someone else has changed.
So what do you think of the main idea guys? (Come on Roy: you must have an opinion )
Re: Suggestion: Roadworks UK sub-forum