On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Pieren Pieren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can create a standalone .osm file with all this in it if you/we > > need a test file. That's a much better idea than polluting the > > database with junk! > > > ok, forget my comment for developers who have a local environment anyway... > but I'm only thinking about the 99% of the OSM contributors who will never > install a renderer but would like to see the best practices described in the > wiki (when they are) in action. > And the database is already polluted by junk, exactly because of lake of > guidelines.
I have a habit of "correcting" data that is wrong/junk if I find it, as do many other people. > When I say 'island', it could be in the middle of a desert as well and > tagued as 'test area' or whatever It really doesn't matter where it is, and if you change the tagging, that actually causes a problem with the whole base idea, because the data is no longer representative. For instance, I'd be very tempted to strip it in osm2pgsql. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
