On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Peter Budny <[email protected]> wrote: > Nathan Edgars II <[email protected]> writes: > >> It's certainly a bad idea to add the auto-created relations to the >> database > > You're not the first person to say this. You're also not the first > person to fail to give a reason why it would be so terrible.
It would be, quite literally, vandalism: adding information that you know to be incorrect. > Having a robot group roads into relations is no different from what's > being done now, where people do bits and pieces at a time, possibly > incorrectly. See > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)/State_Highway_Relations#State_Highways Why do you say possibly incorrectly? Hopefully everyone is sure about what they're mapping. > Since there's been so much opposition, I'm not currently planning to > upload directly to the database; as a compromise I'm planning to publish > changesets and let people integrate them manually. Presumably any such manual integrations will be reverted if they contain obvious errors. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
