On Saturday, February 19, 2011 06:33:17 PM Coast, Hurricane wrote: > I do think some things are 'necessary' to import. Like Park boundaries, > though there is always discussion on the accuracy and how 'good' those are > too. Hrm :-/
Something I discovered about many boundaries… a lot of them imported into OSM are completely *WRONG*. I.e. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SamatJain/diary/11578 There's already a (ridiculously) huge thread about imports going on talk right now. I don't need to repeat it, but a theme from that thread: people don't check things. Back to the original thread… many people have been posting public-domain sources… rather than them going on the Potential Datasources page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potential_Datasources maybe it'd be better to place them onto the page for the locality? For example, I've been putting stuff for New Mexico here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/New_Mexico The idea: it's in a place local mappers will find it, and not in a place that gung-ho armchair importers will look for their next importing project. > I would love for National Parks week to be a "hands on, hike with your > GPS, take your kid/boyscout/girlscout out and explore event'. Who can help > coordinate? I'd not mind, but I'm not sure what's involved…? -- Samat K Jain <http://samat.org/> | GPG: 0x4A456FBA "Hello," he lied. -- Don Carpenter quoting a Hollywood agent (487)
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