On Thu, 9 Jun 2011, Jerry Clough wrote: > Generally, I am still opposed to a bot. There is a substantial body of > evidence that automated imports damage the ability to recruit and nuture new > mappers.
I agree. Even without doing it automatically, just blindly copying from SV causes degraded data. With the new OSSV update 3 new roads showed up in Camden. I'd drawn in the buildings and made a guess of where there roads where yesterday and tagged with "FIXME: Out to survey this later today". This morning, when applying my notes, I found that all three ways were tagged with a name. One with a wrong name (there was no ' in Tolmers Square), and one on a road that looks different than what was on the map with *no* sign visible showing the name at all. A survey took me 30 mins (including looking at a lot more stuff than those three names). When there are no names on a street, it gives a good incentive to go survey them, and it shows which things *need* to be surveyed. Take for example St Ives (http://osm.org/go/erUWwYGN). I'd traced them from Bing to have an idea where I needed to go check. I didn't manage to survey everything but at least now you can see what needs to be done there. > A bot is putting short-term gain ahead of our long-term interests. hear hear. Derick _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
