> On Mar 22, 2019, at 4:08 AM, Mark Wagner <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:23:48 -0600 > Martijn van Exel <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> On Mar 21, 2019, at 12:35 PM, Mark Wagner <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 21:46:59 -0600 >>> Martijn van Exel <[email protected] <mailto:[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. >>> >> >> Do you think this could have been prevented had there been better >> instructions? > > No, I don't. Sorting out which GNIS nodes are outdated and which are > merely misplaced isn't something that can reliably be done from aerial > imagery. For something like "(historical)" GNIS nodes, it's better > just to delete all of them. >
Short of messaging individual mappers, do you see a way in which MapRoulette could be a ‘better citizen’? I’m thinking perhaps a way to ‘report’ challenges. (Not sure how that would work though.) Martijn _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
