On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Charlotte Wolter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > The damage in LA is much more severe: missing segments of freeways, > roads gone. > I thought the bot was supposed to be "smart" enough to subnstitute > TIGER data when eliminating data by nonsigners. But that has not been done. > I am finding many streets (and not ones too new to be in TiGER) that simply > have been deleted. This is very disappointing and, to my mind, wrongheaded. > Poorly done! > Why did the bot people never talk to anyone working on LA? That > would have been important since it is an area with so much damage.
Well the decision was made to not restore objects that were deleted by decliners. There was no special handling of TIGER data. There are some good arguments for this approach but it also creates some problems. Probably particularly in the US where the TIGER data is sometimes so bad that mappers choose to just delete it and start from scratch. I'm honestly not sure if it would have been better overall if deleted objects had been restored or not. It would probably have led to a lot of duplicated roads and overlapping things which are pretty hard to deal with. The good news is that TIGER data is still available to help in remapping. The TIGER 2011 tiles were recently discussed on this mailing list: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TIGER_2011 Toby _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
