why is everyone complaining about qgis, it opens in JOSM too with the geojson plugin.
On Mar 8, 2018 2:55 PM, "Andy Townsend" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/03/2018 17:31, Clifford Snow wrote: > > > Andy, > Ilya did provide a geojson [1] of the entire proposed import. If you look > back in the thread, IIya replied to my request. While large, it opens in > QGIS nicely. > > [1] https://transfer.sh/12oTYj/fuel.json > > > Indeed, but that's not really very helpful to the casual reviewer - we > can't seriously be expecting every local mapper to install a copy of QGIS > just to check a proposed import can we? That's very much in "in the bottom > of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the > door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'" territory*. Also just looking at the > data like that means there's no way to verify that a particular point looks > OK or has problems. > > Actually, when the data does eventually load*** it's clear that there are > some serious problems with it. To take a local example previously > mentioned when the Shell import was discussed > https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/298006841 - there appears to be a > proposal to change the opening hours there from the "Shell" values to > Navads' "24/7". It might have changed of course, but if so it's within the > last month or so. Another example is https://www.openstreetmap.org/ > node/280943195 - the brand in OSM is correct, the proposed brand is > wrong, as is the proposed website. > > Perhaps like the initial attempt with the Shell data Zverik needs to go > away and then come back once it has been corrected at source? That's > essentially what happened with the previous Shell UK import** - at the > second attempt a significant number of obvious errors (discussed on this > list) had been corrected. In addition I'd suggest that this import should > not automatically overwrite data that has an object source or a changeset > source of something containing "survey", local_knowledge" or similar. > > It also does not make sense to suggest that an "advertising" company > update objects in OSM on their whim in the future, especially given the > poor quality of the data they're trying to import now. It's not just the > UK either - their have been quite a few "Zverik, this one looks wrong" > comments on IRC from other countries too. > > Best Regards, > > Andy > > > * 40 years to the day since first broadcast, incidentally: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_ > Galaxy_Primary_and_Secondary_Phases#Fit_the_First > > ** See https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/imports/2017- > May/thread.html#4956 and https://lists.openstreetmap. > org/pipermail/talk-gb/2017-May/thread.html#20205 et al. > > *** The website's still broken - I still can't mark data as "valid" or > "invalid" even when logged in. > > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > >
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