Hi all, I've been struggling for several months with the NJ2002LULC import .
This import has a number of very deep problems (which I'll go into) but the bottom line is at this point, I'd like to propose to remove the import entirely. Since this is such a drastic action, I've CCed the author of the import, but here are my reasons: 1. The import has a number of technical errors There are many places where the import is broken, with ways/relations that are unclosed, all (or at least a vast majority) of the closed ways inside relations are duplicated, etc. 2. The import has a large number of "mega-relations" This import has many very large, very complex relations. These complex relations make the data virtually impossible to work with. I've had so many problems trying to fix data that I've ended up just needing to take the entire relation away, and I don't think I'm the only one. 3. The import is wrong in a number of places I don't know if it's because the import is old, but the data is simply wrong in many areas. 4. I disagree with many areas' subjective data One of my bigger frustrations with this import is that I simply disagree with some of the classifications, especially "scrub", and this is very typical of landuse classifications- they're highly subjective. 5. The import is not really fixable manually or automatically I think that unlike the TIGER work that's being proposed, this import is not really fixable. In order to fix it, the relations and their component ways would basically need to be reconstructed. The work would be huge and so complex I don't think that it would be doable without some serious software engineering. And to fix the import manually would actually involve more work than recreating the data by hand. So my proposal is to remove this import entirely. Thoughts? - Serge _______________________________________________ Imports-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us
