On 2012-06-07 00:20, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2012/6/7 Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us>:
I've only been involved with OSM for a short while, but I believe
that
imports do help. I have fixed some of the bad TIGER imports but
without
them much of the US wouldn't be mapped.
That is an open question. Maybe there would be more mappers if all
the
data was crowdsourced. It is much more fun for many mappers to be the
first to draw a road than to fix errors in apparently complete data.
But we will never know, what actually would have happened if we
didn't
import the Tiger. Maybe you're right and there would just be an
almost
empty map...
Until you hold a survey, nobody knows. The Netherlands was completely
filled with AND data and I'm very happy with that. It meant that there
was a working correct baseline to work from. Germany and Belgium were
all OSM mapped, and still there are area's with lesser coverage.
Especially in remote areas of the world the coverage is poor without
proper imports. It is true that imports should be correct. The IGBE
import in Brazil is not so good.
But on the whole I am very happy with the imports.
Regards,
Maarten
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