Two more quesions just came to my mind: - Are there any volunteers who would love to run with guiding imports better? - Would also love to learn Jason Remillard's perspective of what could be done better given that he's in the middle of working on the MassGIS building import :)
On Dec 17, 2012, at 9:42 AM, Serge Wroclawski <emac...@gmail.com> wrote: > Folks, > > I know what it's like to be excited about OSM, and I know what it's > like to be frustrated with OSM, struggling with low data quality, or > lack of data altogether. > > And then you get access to a large dataset, and you know that having > it in OSM would improve things. It would improve the quality, and > maybe even get people mapping. At the same time, I think many of you > have seen the damage that bad imports can do. > > The result is that folks like myself and others are frustrated by the > import process, and folks who have good, useful datasets are frstrated > by the import process. > > So I'm proposing a new committee, run by the US Chapter, to help guide > imports and large edits. > > This will give step by step guidance to those who want to import data, > and offer the larger community time to review and provide feedback. > > When I helped create the US Chapter several years ago, this was one of > the main reasons I thought it should exist, but I think there's > finally the amount of data and interest to justify it. > > What do folks think? > > - Serge > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250 3633 _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
