Ah goodo, sorry, my incorrect impression was that you hadn't seen that page. Bummer that you can't get in contact with morb_au...But regardless, I reckon the best solution would be to facilitate and encourage locals to grab a MapCraft slice and merge the data in themselves by local knowledge/survey.
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Jason Ward <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for that. I have read that several times and in fact link to it in > the Wiki page for this import (my prior email contains that link). That is > the clearest indication yet that I might need to rethink the existing > dataset. > > >> I would advise against removal of anything unless verified by survey. >> > > I am very much in agreement on this point. If morb_au doesn't wish to > respond to my enquiry or hasn't seen my email/LinkedIn comms then I have to > take that at face value (he is the author of the Wiki section you've quoted > in the email). You've also assumed the meaning of last_surveyed. I wish > to remove that uncertainty as much as possible and really understand why > "in the field" has been surrounded in double quotes. Could 231 Bus stop > nodes really have been accurately surveyed in 1 day? [1] That's a proper > effort survey if that is the case. I'm keen to understand the mechanics of > that day, and all qroti surveys, better so I can appropriately conflate the > new nodes. > > [1]: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/2BK (The highest daily node count of the > qroti dataset) > > If I don't get it then I'll err on the side of caution and retain all > existing data, not shift its location and merge in the new key:value > details that comes with this later dataset. > > If anyone else has any input I am all ears. Remove QROTI keys? I'm > thinking its a good idea as a post implementation of this import purely to > keep references within OSM to current datasets. If its a bad idea could > you tell me why? >
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