* Matthew Petroff <[email protected]> [2013-05-04 00:07 -0400]: > My only qualm with the data is that some buildings have more nodes > than they need, but I'm not sure what can be done about it besides > manually reviewing and simplifying all 200k+ outlines.
My opinion on imports is that if manual intervention is the only way to keep the data at the same quality level that OpenStreetMap should be offering, then manual processes need to be part of the import, because an import should not degrade the quality of data in OSM. (This is why I rejected an direct import of the city's landuse data. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/asciiphil/diary/13891 ) When I briefly discussed the building footprint import with Elliott, I said that, were I doing it, my process would involve pulling the buildings into JOSM and using JOSM's todo plugin to look at each new building and make sure it looks okay and migrate any tags from existing OSM building data. That's a lot more work than just bulk processing the data and dumping it into OSM, but I think the hand-cared aspects of our data are some of the most important things about this project and imports should only complement that care. -- ...computer contrarian of the first order... / http://aperiodic.net/phil/ PGP: 026A27F2 print: D200 5BDB FC4B B24A 9248 9F7A 4322 2D22 026A 27F2 --- -- OOPS! You naughty creature! You didn't run Configure with sh! I will attempt to remedy the situation by running sh for you... -- Perl configure script ---- --- -- _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
