On 9 Nov 2009, at 16:06, Andy Allan wrote: > Please don't. Imports are a real, real annoyance. There's no > indication that anyone using the dracos site has "located" these with > any accuracy or personal knowledge - I wouldn't be surprised to find > many just somewhere "near" the road in question. I'd rather have a > partially complete, high quality map than a bodge of crap data > (NAPTAN, anyone?) that just encourages more people to add crap data > and get the "community to fix it".
There's no indication in areas with a single mapper that they haven't just made stuff up in OSM either, but we assume that eventually the correct data will out. What Matthew Somerville (who runs Dracos.co.uk) has built is a tool designed for doing one thing, very easily. And if OSM is going to reach more people, then it needs to work out how to integrate with tools and services that meet a specific need, rather than just mapping in general. Most people don't care about making a map, but they do know where their nearest postbox is, when asked that specific question. I have no idea what the quality of the data is like in this case, but let's make sure that OSM can work with external services when they have a lot to offer. Cheers, Tom _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
