On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Apollinaris Schoell <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On 12 Nov 2009, at 6:14 , Andy Allan wrote: > > > I disagree there. It's much better to put the effort in during the > > initial import, than to import things badly and try to fix it up > > later. We've been working on lots of post-import fixups in the last 6 > > months and it's much harder than everyone assumes. The 4 months to > > remove TIGER node tags is a case in point - it took less time than > > that to import them! > > > > +10 > Give everyone a chance to work in a constructive way and don't expect > others to clean the mess bad import left behind. > No wonder there are only few motivated mappers in US. In Canada they > do a much better job in integrating the community and don't import > every shape file blindly just because it's available. > Not to start a holy war over what community is better, but there weren't a whole lot of mappers in the US (at least on talk or talk-us) when we started doing the TIGER import...
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