My internet is down; i'll add a section 'learning from AND import' So in summary; 'In doing so, this will cause an expectant behavour among users, where work is neglected.'
So in this light a blanket import over not-concentrated areas would be better. Would doing the 'search and add only, and/or tracing ability not be better? Would it not still create an expectancy for updates? Pondering. (while internet is down) Sam > Cool, > i'll switch it back, i'll also try to summarize your agruments against the > idea. > Cheers, > Sam > > On 12/11/08, Richard Degelder <[email protected]> wrote: >> Sam, >> >> The AND import in the Netherlands used the almost complete wiping out of >> all personally entered data from the mappers there and replaced it >> entirely with the AND data. I thought that we had agreed informally >> that that was not what e wanted to do within Canada when we import the >> GeoBase data here. Lots of things have been done that are not always >> the best practises and the wiping out of almost all of the previously >> entered data within OSM to be replaced with the AND data was done for >> expediency, something that we are not advocating here. >> >> Even Dave Hansen, the person who entered the TIGER data for the USA did >> not eliminate any user entered data and one of the aspects he is hoping >> to see from us is to find a means to update the TIGER data, just as we >> are going to look for a way to update the GeoBase data in the future. >> Is our update routine going to be a constant process of wiping out >> everything that did not come from GeoBase and replacing it with GeoBase >> derived data? >> >> The AND data integration, or rather the wholesale AND replacement of all >> user entered data, was a one of event. Having that type of option >> available for the GeoBase integration means that there really is not a >> place for the many people that have entered data into the map. It no >> longer is a crowd source project but only a Canadian government >> distributed map within ... _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
