El 28/03/12 15:40, Pieren escribió:
I find a bit strange the way you plan the import. The source is
providing the same dataset quality and completness for all
municipalities but each contributor will be able to choose his own
subset (e.g. with or without landuse or parcels) based on personnal
assumptions. This will lead to a hugh inconsistency between
neighborhoods.
Should I stop mapping my city because another city a few kilometers away
is much less mapped? If you are looking for consistency in a
collaborative project where thousands of contributors add data I think
you are in the wrong place. We've been asked to split the import by
different type of data and now the problem seems to be right the
opposite =-O
You also have to know that once your tool is published, you will
quickly find dumped osm extracts"ready to import" for the whole
country even with parcels and landuse. And quickly some irresponsible
contributors will blindly upload everything.
> From our similar experience with the french cadastre, I would advice
to publish a tool where the output is not configurable, data is
already simplified and geometry issues fixed (like polygons, lines,
points overlapping or not joining, etc). Do not expect that people
will take care about quality before uploading. Even if most of the
contributors will, some of them are just looking for quantity, not
quality, as soon as it renders good enough on the mapnik slippy map.
And they don't care if the map is not or hardly editable with current
editors after their import.
I'm afraid idiots will ever exist, with or without cat2osm. Would you
forbid cars all over the world because from time to time an stupid
drives in a motorway the opposite direction just for jun? If you think
this way, you should try to convince JOSM developers to disable WMS
capability, because "some irresponsible contributors will blindly" use
it to map over imagery not compatible with OSM license.
Carlos
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