Andrew, On 09/02/2016 12:47 AM, Andrew Lester wrote: > If people from outside of Canada have decided that our data is so bad > that it needs to be completely wiped out in its entirety, then I guess > we're going to have to do something drastic to try to prevent this.
I think a super good first step would be try and ensure that future imports are done diligently and don't introduce new issues. (This might be the "better documentation" step that Paul mentioned.) It really shouldn't be too hard to detect whether your planned import causes overlapping lakes and forests, but there needs to be an agreement that these things matter and that you cannot simply upload "because if CanVec says that forest and water overlap then this must be true". Then one could take stock of existing issues and make a plan on how to fix them. Whether fixing existing issues will necessitate the wholesale removal of some imports is something that should be decided down the line; I know too little about CanVec imports to say whether some problems are systemic in the data source, or certain regions, or just introduced by clumsy importers. Any large-scale removal of imported data (perhaps to replace it with new, better-imported data) would also have to take into account potential manual work that has been performed on the imported by mappers with local knowledge and it would be sad to lose that. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
