Steve Coast <steve <at> asklater.com> writes: >mapnik etc could render only objects with version 2 or higher. Not only >does that block out imports, but now we're at the point of completing >various areas, it will make people go back and check them.
Not a bad idea - or you could develop various quality heuristics: number of different users who have edited the object, how many different sources have been used (whether tagged explicitly as source=x or mentioned in the changeset) etc. I think this extra-fussy Mapnik style should be an option, not the default: a lot of mapping work is of good enough quality, even though only done as a single pass (for example building shapes traced from Bing) and certainly better than a blank canvas for most uses. But that can be a choice the user makes. Any quality (or 'kwalitee') metric cannot be perfect but it could help people with different philosophies about imports or survey methods co-operate on the same map. -- Ed Avis <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
