On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 21:46:59 -0600 Martijn van Exel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mar 20, 2019, at 9:01 AM, Mateusz Konieczny > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I plan to run an automated edit that will revert part of the GNIS > > import that added them and delete objects that never had any reason > > to appear in the OSM database in any form, at least according to > > GNIS data. > > > > Please comment no matter what you think about this idea! I will not > > make the edit without a clear support so please comment if you think > > that it is a good idea and if you think that it should not be > > done. > > > Thanks for bringing the idea up. It actually did come up fairly > recently on Slack > https://osmus.slack.com/archives/C029HV951/p1550176430103000 > > My view is that we would be missing an opportunity to have mappers > review these locations and update the areas concerned. These nodes > exist mostly in ‘undermapped' / remote areas that could use some > human mapper attention. So I’d be in favor of trying to resolve this > using some human driven cleanup first. My experience is that this will mostly just make things worse. There was a MapRoulette task a while back for cleaning up unmodified GNIS-imported schools. There were only a few of them left around me, but the most common result was that an armchair mapper would drag the node to a nearby non-house-looking building, trace the building, and merge it with the imported node. Not one of these was actually a school. -- Mark _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
