Andrew, Actually I agree, but I discussed this before with some other OSM/HOT people (It's been so long I don't remember when or who) and it was said that using inaccurate data might be worse than nothing.
For the CAR specifically I think using the data might be better than not using it. There is nothing there, no data at all, for most of the country. There won't be a mapping community there in the near future... etc. Met vriendelijke groeten, Best regards, Ben Abelshausen ben.abelshau...@gmail.com http://twitter.com/xivk On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Andrew Buck <andrew.r.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > Regarding areas with no imagery. I would still say to import the roads. > A couple hundred meters off is a lot, but it is better to have the > 'connectivity' mapped (i.e. what town connects to what other town) than to > have nothing at all. Someone following the road in a car does not mind > that their GPS tells them they are "beside" the road. Also, it is my > understanding that the data has some road names and such so I would import > them to get that. They can always be refined later when bing becomes > available. The imagery is being added fast, and just in the last year we > have gone from only a few cities in Africa to much of the continent being > covered. I expect much of the rest to come online shortly. > > Importing some of the data now and the rest later brings its own problems, > so I would suggest putting it in. > > -AndrewBuck >
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