Hi, On 19.05.2013 22:59, Paul Norman wrote:
I'm looking to find some metrics to analyze import quality. Some thoughts I had were
In my mind, an import is only good if it helps the community to build a better map. It is *not* good if it just dumps more data into OSM for a cheap show effect ("look how we have all buildings in X!").
This would mean that the quality of an import might be judged by comparing the general editing activity in the area with the activity that would have taken place without the import. Is it less - the import was bad. Equal - the import was useless. More - the import was good.
Of course it is impossible to *know* what the amount of editing activity would have been without the import, but statistics can be your friend here - identify roughly similar areas (in terms of size of land, population density, and size of mapper community) where no import has taken place, and compare.
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