Kevin, On 07/11/12 16:20, Kevin Kenny wrote:
The data checks in JOSM and Potlatch2 are fine in that they all indeed highlight potential problems.
As RichardF has pointed out, Potlatch2 sorely lacks any kind of data check. With the exception of unconnected road ends flashing aggressively.
But the sum total of them is just overwhelming. Right now, it feels as if I need to rectify every problem in any object that I've downloaded, to silence all the complaints from the tools.
One has to to take them as nagging-but-wanting-to-help tools rather than as commanders. Sometimes it says "road without name" and I go "oops, right, forgot that"; sometimes I go "shut the f&%$ up, if I knew the name I'd have entered it!".
I think doing something half-good and letting others (or the future self) fix it is perfectly all right.
With one exception: It is not all right to import crap hoping that others will somehow make it non-crap. The bar for imports is much, much higher than the bar for human edits.
This becomes even worse if someone is working on, say, a piece of the NHD import. There seems to be the expectation that if I'm importing a sub-basin, I'll go out and visit every place where a road and a stream meet, to get the levels right and either mark the road as a bridge or the stream as a culvert.
That's because someone has imported crap and is now relying on you to make it non-crap. They shouldn't have done that. But if I were in your situation I'd ignore all the warnings.
It might not be a bad idea to have the validator run once data has been downloaded, and then when you upload, only have it show *new* problems caused by you. I'll float the idea on josm-dev.
I know I've been advised in the past, "just do it. People complain, but they don't revert good data." Is that still sound advice?
I must say that I have rarely seen real people complain about things like you mention - crossing ways etc.; it's just the validator that does that. People will complain about other things.
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