On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Alex Barth <[email protected]> wrote: > Katie - > > Can you show me an example? > > Some of the problematic things I found earlier this week when surveying:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/179039 http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/178197 It's difficult to go back and look at the deleted buildings and say which were better, but I don't think any were kept as far as i can tell. We even put in addresses! and they were deleted. I don't think that was necessary. Also, think generally having paid mappers is not a good thing, and the import should have been done by the local community even if it takes longer, imho. Katie > We took great care to: > > - Preserve existing buildings where they had higher quality than import > buildings > - Merge POIs were appropriate > - Don't touch POIs at all when situation unclear > > On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Katie Filbert <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> It looks like for NYC imports, they simply deleted existing buildings and >> added the new ones. This includes areas that I surveyed on the ground, >> ensuring POIs lined up with the buildings correctly, updating for >> demolished / new buildings etc. >> >> To be honest, that is quite discouraging and demotivating to continue >> contributing to OSM. The same thing ought not happen for DC, if we >> don't want to alienate the community. >> > > > -- Katie Filbert [email protected] @filbertkm / @wikimediadc / @wikidata
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