On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Stewart C. Russell <scr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> As a rule I don't remove any existing data, unless the data >> is duplicated and then I try to pick the best one. > > But deleting my tracing of Horne Lake was okay, though? > http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/77445326/history As Andrew stated, existing data usually stays. Obviously a mistake was made. We're all human. > You should have bumped the way version, given that there was a lake > already there with the same name. So which ever source has the best resolution should be the one that stays, or perhaps a merge of the best data from both... OSM is a living entity that changes. Stewart, you've found an area of concern, and Andrew is responding. You can't get much better than this. > But it exactly corresponds to these weird square boundaries that are all > over the area, like this way: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/259481614 > - so you broke a lake that was already there. So have a bit of a look into what CanVec is, and how the data has been sliced up and provided to OSM for consumption. You'll immediately understand what all these weird square boundaries are. Look just about anywhere in Canada where CanVec imports have happened. You'll find these artifacts all over. > Can't you run a simplification algorithm for closed polygons to get the > count down to something sensible? So, using that logic, should we take your Horne Lake closed polygon and simplify it down to 20 points? Okay, not entirely sensible, but then who defines sensible? Large complicated polygons abound in the OSM database. They just need to be dealt with appropriately. >> Just a thought could the missing data be a result of some user who did >> not accept the new terms of service > > No, the edits were me, or an earlier import from geobase_stevens from 2009. > > Please, as Daniel suggested, clean up your mess. And of course, thank you to both of you for all the work you guys ave done in adding to the OSM database. Everyone's contributions are appreciated, but occasionally we bump into each other. This forum gives us the perfect place to say "Oops, excuse me... sorry!" -- James VE6SRV _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
