On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Marc Provencher <[email protected]> wrote:
> I guess Dale Atkin (Ibycus) is using a different program then for his road > matching, because these omissions don't seem to show up on the Ibycus map. Dale just grabbed the GeoBase data. Dale's product predated the GeoBase import into OSM. Dale was not limited by licensing in the same way that OSM was. At that time, the GeoBase license was not compatible with the OSM license. OSM got access to GeoBase, and the roadmatcher script was created to allow unique ways from GeoBase to be added to the OSM database. This was done to ensure that no user entered data was destroyed. The side effect was that some ways from GeoBase were left out of the OSM database. The way to find these missing ways is to observe the OSM database. Look for missing information. The strength of the OSM community is the community of OSM. With many sets of eyes, and associated hands, the last step of the GeoBase import is to find and fix issues where the OSM database and GeoBase database need to be stitched together. James VE6SRV _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
