I thought this had been stopped and reverted? I just found 44,000 empty nodes from this import still present in just a tiny part of northwest Arkansas from this changeset (and possibly others:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/7641907 Toby On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Serge Wroclawski <emac...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Michael Leibowitz > <michael.leibow...@intel.com> wrote: > > >> I would posit that in the US, imports have been important. However, they >> have had problems as you pointed out previously. Couldn't it be the case >> that imports can be better prosecuted with better tools such that their >> utility goes up and their source of problems goes down? I think that's >> really what I'd like to see. > > You and Josh can certainly argue that in a world where there were > ultimately amazing tools to keep data in sync this way, we could use > external data sources without problem. > > Rather than even go into the merits of this as an argument, I'll say > "Okay, show me such a tool." > > I've been working on tools to make it easier for the OSM community to > work with external datasets more easily because I think that in the > US, where we don't have a strong community, such tools are necessary, > but the flip side is that the US seems to be very tool centric in the > sense that we believe that if we just had the right tool, all would be > good. > > We can't begin to discuss that intelligently unless a tool existed. > Since none does right now, I'd rather see us spend the limited > resources we have on things which are accomplishable right now. > > Josh: Until a tool exists to do this synchronization, it's not a > "merge"- it's an import. > > - Serge > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > Imports@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
