Hi Serge, Would it be possible to re-import the same data later with the relations straighten out?
Thanks Jason On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Imports-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us
