On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Peter Budny <[email protected]> wrote:
> The thing is, whether the work is done by humans or robots, how are you > going to know if it's right? By going to it and checking. > But anyway... how do you know if the data is right? OSM doesn't have > many tools for assisting humans in much of anything, whether it's > creating new data, or augmenting data with new data sources or with > information gleaned from examining metadata, or verifying data to make > sure it's actually accurate. That's because the assumption of OSM is that data is entered by ground surveying and therefore things like "This road has N lanes" is assumed to be true. > If automated edits are problematic, it's not because the robot > apocalypse is coming. It's because automated edits are hacked together > due to a lack of tools and support in OSM for doing anything other than > manual editing. This isn't a problem with automated edits; it's a > problem with OSM. Peter, you've done an excellent job of identifying problems with OSM. Do you have any suggestions on how to resolve these issues? - Serge _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
