On 21.02.2011 21:43, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > Tordanik wrote: >> >> The best way to achieve this, IMO, is to only execute mass edits and >> imports in collaboration with a local community. This makes sure that >> there is a sufficiently developed community of mappers "on the ground", >> allows them to evaluate the data's quality beforehand, and makes it >> likely that the data will be well integrated into the OSM database soon >> after the import. >> > Would you say the same about mapping in an area you're in on vacation? Or is > it OK to dump incomplete data on an area with no local community as long as > it's not an import?
The potential negative effects of manual edits by a foreign mapper are nowhere close to those of imports. That's because ... a) ... a visitor will use similar tools as future local mappers. Imports are, in many ways, different from manual mapping. b) ... the amount of data that a human will collect during the short timespan of a vacation will usually not be beyond a future local community's maintenance capability. Imports are able to generate a lot more data than that. Tobias Knerr _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
