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Is the Clinched Highway Mapping site still active?
english si:
--- Quote from: froggie on February 18, 2015, 08:26:26 PM ---There's been minimal to no contact with the site owner in recent weeks.
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Though it should also be said that contingency plans are being created, in case the site does go down / takes too long to hear anything at all from the owner.
--- Quote ---We're not sure what's happening.
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Indeed, collaborators like froggie and I are as in the dark as everyone else.
--- Quote from: 1995hoo on February 24, 2015, 03:50:31 PM ---I suppose I may just continue to update my .LIST file on my PC in case it ever re-activates.
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I'm still maintaining the regions of the world I'm collaborating on, albeit not sending updates in until the ones I sent in last summer get ingested. I don't think the collaborators have given up and should there be a new site doing the same thing, or (hopefully) the current site stops being mothballed, then an up-to-date .list file is a good thing to have.
I'm even starting to bring up the European countries that I am not in charge of up to date (they are about a year behind) in case the contingency plans need enacting. I spent the weekend (doing other stuff as well) bringing Central Asia (countries ending -stan) up to date* - mostly improvements in mapping, rather than anything else.
*Which is probably the most pointless task ever (updating routes that no one has been anywhere near, that aren't mine to update, for a site that is mothballed). Oh, wait, no - I made Asian Highway files for those countries - that is the most pointless task ever!
Scott5114:
I'm kind of surprised someone still has to manually process the .list files. It would be trivial to allow the .list file to be uploaded to the server by the user and have the site automatically parse it.
If a new CHM site has to be made to replace the current one, I'd like to see a way for the site to build the list files interactively. The text file approach is robust but can get tedious.
1995hoo:
--- Quote from: Scott5114 on February 24, 2015, 04:41:07 PM ---I'm kind of surprised someone still has to manually process the .list files. It would be trivial to allow the .list file to be uploaded to the server by the user and have the site automatically parse it.
If a new CHM site has to be made to replace the current one, I'd like to see a way for the site to build the list files interactively. The text file approach is robust but can get tedious.
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If a new site were built, it'd be nice if it could automatically adjust the users' lists when a revision is made to a particular road or a waypoint is renamed, or else continue to recognize the old data. An example of the former would be when the A344 past Stonehenge was closed and the road number decommissioned–those of us who had driven it now had an error listed in our log files (mine still shows the error because I have not deleted the entry and probably won't). This is a situation where it'd be nice if it could still recognize the old data–there was a road there, even though it's now gone, so it'd be nice if the system could account for your having driven it. (To be hypertechnical about it, there's still a road there, but it's now restricted to shuttle buses from the new visitors' centre located further to the west at the A360 roundabout that wasn't there when I visited. I suppose someone could still "clinch" the now-existing road by riding one of the shuttles.)
In the case of a waypoint being renamed, it seems like it could be possible for the system to recognize the old name, sort of like a redirect on Wikipedia.
TheHighwayMan394:
I had actually submitted my list as a first-time user recently and I had been thinking initially I had made a mistake in my file and that's why it had not been processed. Hope everything is OK with the owner. :/
english si:
--- Quote from: 1995hoo on February 24, 2015, 05:05:01 PM ---If a new site were built, it'd be nice if it could automatically adjust the users' lists when a revision is made to a particular road or a waypoint is renamed, or else continue to recognize the old data. An example of the former would be when the A344 past Stonehenge was closed and the road number decommissioned–those of us who had driven it now had an error listed in our log files (mine still shows the error because I have not deleted the entry and probably won't). This is a situation where it'd be nice if it could still recognize the old data–there was a road there, even though it's now gone, so it'd be nice if the system could account for your having driven it. (To be hypertechnical about it, there's still a road there, but it's now restricted to shuttle buses from the new visitors' centre located further to the west at the A360 roundabout that wasn't there when I visited. I suppose someone could still "clinch" the now-existing road by riding one of the shuttles.)
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That seems rather difficult to do, and the risk of false positives seems too great. You'll just have to put up with the 'error' which just sits there rather hidden in your user log file.
--- Quote ---In the case of a waypoint being renamed, it seems like it could be possible for the system to recognize the old name, sort of like a redirect on Wikipedia.
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That exists now. In fact, that was there years ago, but is now handled more elegantly.
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