> > > Good point. Fixing it now is not a permanent solution. We will have to > keep monitoring. Which brings me to the question of responsibility: to > what extent do we - as the OSM US community - want or need to keep the > data consistent by running monitoring bots? I believe that a certain > degree of inconsistency is to be expected from a crowdsourced dataset > and we should be very careful antagonizing mappers with data > monitoring bots. > -- >
Certainly inconsistency appears in any large dataset that's touched by a large number of editors. I don't see why expecting contributors to try to comply with reasonable data entry/quality guidelines is unreasonable. JOSM has a suite of validity checkers to try to apply constancy guidelines to new/edited data. Why might running clean-up bots antagonize mappers (particularly if their updates can be filtered from edit lists ;-)) any more than validation checks before updates ? Very high quality map renderings depend upon some sort of reasonable consistency across feature types, not only to minimize the complexity of style sheets but also to guarantee that a river in New York renders like a river in Alaska. > Nominatum should still continue to handle both cases. Although it has been > said that map renderering is the place to abbreviate the full name, no map > renderer currently does this as far as I know. If there is ever a custom US > style OSM renderer, that would be a logical feature. IMHO, renderers render, ie transform vector/image data into map image pixels. If a use case exists for abbreviated and long street name components then the data should be stored in the underlying DB to enable transforms and validation to run off-line. Another possibility is a modified data store optimized for rendering (meta-tile sized data chunks or cached labeling performed using very sophisticated placement algorithms, as a couple examples) that the renderers use. Best, John Novak Novacell Technologies and the Old Topo Depot http://www.novacell.com 585-OLD-TOPOS (585-653-8676)
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