> > There are some excellent examples of how mapping should be done all over the > world. But I do hope we have shown that a large percentage of the data STILL > needs a lot of work? At the end of the day this is more about education of > mappers and how to get the best out of the material available. In hindsight I > think there is some agreement that perhaps the data should not have been made > 'generally' available and that mappers were monitored a little more as to > their use of the data? The horse has bolted now, so tools to clean up are now > needed :( > > In SOME areas the cadastre is ugly with several strange shaped blocks sort of > grouped together vaguely around the location of a clean square building on > the imagery ... that is what is irritating ... >
Yes it's the actual situation, it is like some other big imports : TIGER, PGS coastline,..., it's a work in progress and the community is improving things, it's OpenStreetMap ! I think OSM is better with this data in than without. Vlad. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
