At 2011-04-10 12:43, Richard Welty wrote:
On 4/10/11 1:39 PM, Alan Mintz wrote:
At 2011-04-10 09:42, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
I came across a relation for a school bus:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/239393
Isn't this a little too much detail for OSM?
A single relation? Really? We map lots of private-access things, like
driveways and access roads, private clubs, etc. As far as volume,
fighting with limits caused by import of tens of thousands of individual
non-streams in the desert, landuse shapes that were over-digitized by an
order of magnitude, individual trees, etc. all seem more realistic things
to focus on limiting, no?
Use of OSM by schools is a great use of both their and our resources. The
only note I'd be sending the user is to encourage them to import more of
their bus routes and show others how to do so.
but they do vary from year to year.
As do commercial bus routes, at least based on the number of stickers with
changes on them I see on signage around here. In fact, I'll bet that's on
the rise as more/easy analysis of passenger counts is available to
operators through integration with GIS.
i worry about importing such data then
failing to maintain it. it's very subject to bit rot.
At the yearly level, true of any temporal data that we enthusiastically
map, like tenants of strip malls*, business opening hours, speed limits,
and turn restrictions.
It just seems like OSM is well-suited for use by schools. They have to
maintain data like bus routes, campus maps, etc., it's to both their and
their communities' advantage to make it free and accessible, and it spreads
the gospel of OSM.
*The stats on new small business failures are truly depressing.
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Alan Mintz <[email protected]>
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