On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Nathan Edgars II <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Ian Dees <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think the NHD "import" is a good example of a well-intentioned importer > > (me) gone wrong. I had initially planned to import the whole darn thing > in > > one swoop, but various technical and life challenges came up before I > could > > get it going. While I was working on those issues, people started > importing > > it themselves (sometimes marking so on the wiki, sometimes not). Now that > > there are some areas imported, the import of the whole dataset becomes > > infinitely harder because we have to match existing data with new > OSM-ified > > data. > > But how is this any different from importing it into an area where > people have already mapped some lakes from aerials? > > It isn't any different. I had made the (bad) decision at the time to import over any existing data because in the several hundred places I spot-checked, NHD was vastly superior in resolution (and probably quality). If we wanted to support imports as a community, a tool like [0] should be the only way of letting imports in to OSM. [0] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Import_Database#French_Corine_Import_as_Template
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