On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 9:10 AM, William Lachance <[email protected]> wrote:
> I see the argument of not wanting to blow away people's hard work, but > from my (admittedly NS-centric view), that approach will lead to severe > limitations in terms of the quality and consistency of the results. If > you look at the Halifax region, there's great swathes of OSM data in > Dartmouth which have no naming information whatsoever. To me it just > makes no sense to just throw out the rich set of NS geobase data for > these areas, just because someone did a first pass at mapping it out. I agree with you here... I am in the process of manually deleting all of the road data that I entered into Sherwood Park, and Strathcona County. I did a bunch of manual tracing of roadways from aerial imagery. I have not physically gone to each street to read the name off of the signage, so therefore I can not put names on the roads. It will be quite a while before I can do that. I also traced the rural roads from poor quality imagery, which means the positional accuracy is questionable. It will be a long time before I can visit every road in the county. Since I am the only mapper working in the county (actually I found another mapper, but his data was simply horrific), I have been deleting my work, and have asked for another run through the area with the script. I would have preferred knowing the scrip was going to be run, and had the option of deleting the data first, but that opportunity has passed. I also would have preferred to peel up the highways that I have tracked in favour of laying down GeoBase ways, and then going back and editing the GeoBase ways. I have the luxury of being able to make these arbitrary decisions because I am working in isolation, and the decisions only affect work that I have done. I'm not going to be wiping out the work of others. Of course, the other side of the coin is that some could argue that once I enter the data, it no longer belongs to me, but is part of the creative commons, and belongs to everyone. I do know, however that it takes almost as long to peel up the roadways as it did to lay them down in the first place! James VE6SRV _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
