OpenStreetMap
A few days ago I’ve seen that one new opened bridge (Peace Bridge) here in Calgary is (was) missing. So I went went out the weekend to collect the GPS data for that bridge. In the evening I wanted to put this data to OSM. But for sudden the bridge was in. Checking the history I found that I just a few minutes too late: Just 30 minutes before the data was captured by another user here in Calgary.
But I was able to add some more information to OSM.
Discussion
Comment from maxolasersquad on 11 April 2012 at 10:40
A good problem to have for sure. Here in my corner of this planet, anything I don’t map is unlikely to be mapped for years to come. There is a nice satisfaction, for me at least, of mapping new construction before any of the other major providers have the chance.
Comment from AndrewBuck on 11 April 2012 at 20:58
Cool. It’s interesting to note also that not only is this data added much more quickly to the OSM database than it will to others, it is even a foot bridge so many datasets wouldn’t include it even if it had existed since time immemorial. Nice work on that. Hope you at least uploaded your GPS traces even if the bridge is already there. It never hurts to have a extra data collected.
-Buck
Comment from smsm1 on 12 April 2012 at 07:52
It’s not the first time that I’ve heard of similar things happening. I’ve had it happen to myself in the past.