Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:08 AM, William Lachance<wrl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 10:28 -0400, Gerald A wrote: > >> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Corey Burger <corey.bur...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> <snip >> > 1) start fresh (streets/road-wise), enjoy correct topology >> and overall >> > consistency for the whole Canada from the start, and >> correct/add to out-of-date data from GeoBase. >> >> </snip> > >> I have to agree with this feeling -- having done a bit of work in my >> local area, it would more then annoy me if it was all deleted for some >> supposedly more "authoritative" work. >> >> We're looking for the best map, not the map that is the fastest to get >> up. Tiger, which contains far more data then Geobase, used a >> complimentary approach, IIRC. > > My understanding from talking to one of the main people responsible for > the Tiger import (Brandon Martin Anderson) is that there wasn't much > data in place in the U.S. when the Tiger import started, hence this was > much less of an issue at least at the time. I'm not sure what they're > doing now (how often does Tiger even update their data?). > > In any case, we're going to need to solve the problem of how to > reconcile the (amazing) GeoBase work with the (also amazing) work of OSM > volunteers for the forseeable future. It's not like there aren't > inaccuracies in both data sets (not to mention the fact that the road > network continues to be developed). Furthermore, this problem is _not_ > limited to Canada. Increasingly, this is going to be a global issue as > more and more government agencies worldwide see the light and make their > GIS data publicly available. > > In my opinion, we'd do better to write the software and create the > processes that facilitate the ongoing merging of data from the two > sources now, rather than dream about scenarios where these problems > don't exist.
I am not disagreeing that we need to fix it on the software side, but we cannot, IMO, take the easy route of simply deleting data. And yes, TIGER as a whole had less data but there were fairly well mapped locations in pockets. Corey _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
