Hi Gorio,
Thanks for sharing your concerns. Adding new features based on the
new imagery now will not lead to them being misaligned. I say this
because the automatic alignment that I had mentioned earlier has not
performed as we had hoped it would. Let me elaborate a bit on the
steps that are now being taken. This process might take a bit longer
than we would like and we apologize for any inconvenience. Our team
will now be manually aligning the areas as follows:
- Roads will be aligned first.
- Polygons will be aligned next.
- We will try our best to align the features marked as points. But, as
we might not be able to judge the exact position, we would need your
help with those.
So, new features that are added now in accordance with the new
satellite imagery will be left untouched. In the specific case of
roads, you can add the new roads as per the satellite imagery and
connect (& extend if required) it to the misaligned roads and while we
are re-aligning the roads, we will not touch any of the roads that are
already aligned.
NHK has given an excellent example for this :
http://www.google.com/mapmaker?hl=en&fll=30.92866,69.125934&fr=0.000736,0.000858&mpp=2.048976&gw=39&ll=30.927979,69.125333&spn=0.013842,0.020428&t=h&z=16&iwloc=0_0&fid=4120396784466591413:3500251784740782445
In his case, he just drew the one section while extending the road and
left the misaligned sections, which will be realigned subsequently by
us.
Hope that clarifies your doubt. Please let me know if you have any
concerns.
Thanks & Regards,
Map Maker Guide.