On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Andy Allan wrote: >> >> automated imports of sub-standard data > > It is probably wishful thinking to hope that they will go away.
Not really. We could state that imports are not permitted, and enforce it, if we want to. "Wishful thinking" is too close to "lost cause", and we're not there yet. > But one > thing we could do to limit damage is to have something like "layering" in > the OSM data base; I disagree, but only with your suggestion not the intent behind it. If we take a step back, then our editors (especially JOSM) can cope with a variety of "aides" or "sources" for the mappers. We have GPX traces (both local and central), raster aerial imagery (from multiple places, not just Yahoo!), geo-tagged photos, raster maps (PD and/or OOC), audio, video, scribbles on printed maps. The bit that is missing is being able to use vector map sources (e.g. shapefiles, CSVs of postboxes or WFS services) in a similar fashion - as assistance to a mapper in the same way as everything else. So if I'm adding a building, I can use aerial imagery to assist, if I'm adding postboxes, I can use the dracos list to assist. I think with Vector Sources support in editors we can massively reduce the need for bulk imports. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
