On 2/19/2011 8:04 PM, Andrew Errington wrote:
> Imports are bad. It's
> bad because I discover errors and start to think 'How many more
errors must
> there be?'. It's mainly bad for two reasons. Firstly, the data is
old, and
> there has been a significant road-building program going on here for
a while.
Imports aren't always bad. Consider the equivalent case of one or
more mappers who worked heavily in your area 2 years ago. You might
discover errors and lack of new roads and come to the same conclusion.
> Secondly, things don't join up because the import processing didn't
process
> road junctions properly, so routing doesn't work (until mappers go
around and
> join them up).
Agreed, things should be joined properly. But for all its warts, the
import is much faster to get things started. I drive around with
Skobbler enabled whenever possible to check for Goofball driving
instructions. Goofball driving instructions are most often based in
Goofball map data, which is easily fixed.
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