Nathan wrote >On 1/31/2012 4:07 PM, Nick Hocking wrote: >>* Blimey - two streets up from Arvia, Asbury Street was incorrectly *>>* named in OSM as Ashbury. *>>* Just how many typos are there in L.A. *>>* Hey - now there's a good idead for a competition!!! * >What you mean is that imports are better than surveying (since mappers >make typos). The correctness of this is left to the reader
No, What I mean is that any info in OSM should be desk checked at least once by another mapper. When I mapped Canberra, I desk checked everything at least twice against about four independent sources. Where there were any discrepencies, I resurveyed the road/s in question to get the correct data, and yes, some of the typos were mine. In about a dozen cases I could prove that the street sign was wrong and the government fixed these in less than two months. Now, the real question is, is there a programatic way to check OSM against TIGER2011 and report and naming differences? Being able to do this would be of enormous benifit to OSM in the USA.
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