Hi, couple general comments:
On 11/30/13 18:23, Randal Hale wrote: > Union County Georgia made their buildings (as well as roads) accessible > through a public domain license - they've asked myself (rjhale1971) and > Carol (geocak) to upload them into OpenStreetMap. What's your assessment of the OSM community in Union County Georgia? Do you know the people who are active there, have you been in touch? Just to avoid any misunderstandings, we are talking of this right: http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/532213#map=11/34.8316/-83.9919 Looking just at the name of the user who have last edited any object in this county, only the following people have more than 100 edits in the area: 71555 jumbanho 50903 woodpeck_fixbot 20677 Liber 6589 sadam-AT 2274 bot-mode 1671 EdLoach 1175 DaveHansenTiger 789 Le Fou 530 rh3662 508 ksamples 299 iandees 226 BeauMan 140 egore911 137 42429 Zooming in a bit, it becomes immediately clear that there seems to be a problem with fixing bad imports in Union County Georgia - e.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/532213#map=15/34.9172/-84.0614 shows clearly overlapping water and wood areas from USGS and NHD - only one can be right (and Bing imagery claims a third way in some areas I have looked at). In addition to that, there's TIGER data that is totally unrelated to things on the ground. These three imports seem to have been there for years, unloved and unfixed. Do you have any ideas/action plans to remedy that, to get more people interested in doing the work that needs to be done to make the map good in Union County Georgia? You say you'd like to get the GIS dept to get involved more but they're unlikely to be able to fix this without help from the population at large. If you import building footprints here, they are * (almost) guaranteed to conflict with old imported never-fixed USGS data (buildings in forests etc.) * (almost) guaranteed to conflict with old imported never-fixed NHD data (buildings in lakes and rivers etc.) * (almost) guaranteed to conflict with old imported never-fixed TIGER roads (buildings sitting on top of streets etc.) Just to be clear, when you say > o This isn't a scripted import. Each grid will be checked in JOSM > and validated before it's uploaded. does that mean that you will fix the existing data to not be in conflict with your buildings, are you planning to only check for errors within your building data set? You write that you and Carol have been asked to do the import. I note that you have 2 (two) edits in that county and Carol has zero. Would you consider yourselves members of the OSM community in Union County Georgia? If so, have you never noticed the above broken import and felt the urge to fix them, at least one tiny bit? Just to clarify, when you say you have been "asked to do the import", does that mean that you or your company has been contracted to do the import, i.e. will you be receiving any benefits from this other than seeing the map improved, or is this a hobby activity for you? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Imports-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us
