On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:47 PM, James A. Treacy <[email protected]> wrote:
> In spite of the second case, anyone asking about poor quality roads is > given the party line that the existing work should stay. > > This is ridiculous. I think you're misinterpreting the statements being made... this is kind of like the oft espoused mantra "Don't tag for the renderers!" The issue that was up for discussion was whether there should be a wholesale wipe and clean then GeoBase import via script. The script is designed to import GeoBase unless there is existing OSM data. The script has no way of knowing if the quality of the OSM data. Because the script has no knowledge of whether the existing data is of excellent versus dubious quality, the decision was made to defer to the OSM data which has been input by an entity that used knowledge and reasoning to place the way. If however one were to manually look at each GeoBase way, and compare it against the existing OSM data, and then using local knowledge/GPS traces/Yahoo Imagery, decide that the GeoBase data is of better quality than the OSM data, I am sure that everyone would agree that the OSM data should be deleted, and GeoBase be used. The stitching process really needs to be done through a similar process, where the ways that have been excluded by the script should be looked at by a human who can make intelligent decisions that just can't be done by a script. By all means, use your judgement, and choose to include on the OSM database the best information available. If there's a human being making the decision about each way being included, the community should stand behind that decision. If however you simply wholesale delete information because you feel that another dataset is better without checking, then you would be going against the general consensus of the vocal majority that discussed this topic before the import happened. Remember, the script made a very simple decision... if there's no existing data in the OSM database for this way, the the GeoBase way is indeed of better quality/accuracy that the OSM data. Hopefully that clears up the confusion... James VE6SRV _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
