On 14 Nov 2009, at 10:22 , Dave Hansen wrote: > On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 23:56 -0800, Dan Homerick wrote: >> i, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Apollinaris Schoell <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> I'm highly in favor of doing the import, regardless. I >> think the inaccuracies will be far easier to fix than >> to put the addressing in from scratch. I've done a lot >> of mapping in my area, but haven't been willing to >> start doing addresses, even before I knew that the >> TIGER import was coming down the line. I would be >> willing to search out and fix errors though, since all >> it will take is changing a few nodes. >> > >> That's just not happening. If bad data is in it's hard to >> verify it's wrong. If in doubt don't import. Empty map will >> tell everyone immediately there is work to do. Wrong data is >> hard to even figure out there is a need to survey. >> >> >> I'm not sure what you mean by, "That's just not happening." Clarify? > > I think he means that he'd prefer it not be imported. >
not exactly, wherever it's good quality and no better data from county available we should import. > However, unless Apollinaris was appointed supreme OSM dictator and I > missed it, I'm not sure it means any more than Apollinaris stating his > opinion. > even SteveC isn't accepted as dictator. how would anyone listen to my dictatorship > If we can come up with a scheme for getting the addressing imported > in a > sane fashion and the consensus is that people want it done that way, > it'll get imported. There are still quite a few squeaky wheels that > like to grumble about TIGER, but I haven't heard a single person say > that it did more harm than good. > exactly, I do see a big problem for areas with existing address data. before any upload this has to be respected and tiger addresses skipped unless the mappers agree to remove their work. > -- Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
