Frederik, I meant to reply earlier. Please excuse my tardiness.
I'm a reporter/graphic artist at the Los Angeles Times. I'm based in Southern California and am involved with the import team. I also have commitments to help import by everyone in our team, which includes 12 graphic artists including myself. We make maps every day for both the newspaper and our website. So, we should be in a good spot to check the accuracy of the imports. And we will be doing this as part of our day job, since we rely on OSM data to power our maps. We'll also plan an import event in downtown Los Angeles once the import process gets going. Thanks for your concerns! I hope we've eased them. Jon Schleuss jschleuss.com Maning, On 02/13/2016 06:45 AM, maning sambale wrote: >* We are proposing a building import of the public domain building and *>* assessor data for LA County [0]. * How many of your team are local to LA, and how are you cooperating with the OSM community in LA? What is your estimate about participation of local mappers? Is it likely that we'll see 10 people participating, half of them not even living in the area, and each of them importing 300,000 of the 3 million buildings? That would be my main fear about this; it is not unheard of for previous building footprint imports in the US to be called a "community import" but the community was really a very eager one-digit number of people who mostly didn't even have any ties to the area they were importing in. Can we have the hope that the LA building footprint import will be handled by people who have actually been to the area they see on their editor screen? Will there be people participating in this community import as part of their day job? Bye Frederik
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