Re: [Talk-us] Import discussions

[the Old Topo Depot]

The OSM UK wiki has a priorities page (
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Mapping_Priorities); since a
similarly named page does not exist for the US (
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Mapping_Priorities), we should create
one and begin populating it.

Best,

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Mike N  wrote:

> On 6/11/2012 10:54 AM, Alan Mintz wrote:
>
>> Personally, I wish that all those that want to import building outlines
>> would first think about the existing street network (this, after all,
>> being OpenSTREETMap). So much of the US is still unedited TIGER 2005
>> data - mis-aligned, poorly connected, stale-named, and missing lots of
>> new construction from the peak to the end of the housing boom.
>>
>
> I'll agree with this.   I'm not sure of the value of building outlines
> until someone actively uses or updates them.
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Re: [Talk-us] Import discussions

[Mike N]

On 6/11/2012 10:54 AM, Alan Mintz wrote:

Personally, I wish that all those that want to import building outlines
would first think about the existing street network (this, after all,
being OpenSTREETMap). So much of the US is still unedited TIGER 2005
data - mis-aligned, poorly connected, stale-named, and missing lots of
new construction from the peak to the end of the housing boom.


I'll agree with this.   I'm not sure of the value of building outlines 
until someone actively uses or updates them.


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[Talk-us] Import discussions

[Alan Mintz]

There have been several threads about import guidelines and building 
imports lately. Still, nobody is ever concerned with the data size and 
performance issues that will surely be caused by expanded imports of 
building and lot outlines (as discussed recently for Bakersfield, 
California). Shouldn't we have a plan to deal with this before it becomes a 
bigger problem?


Personally, I wish that all those that want to import building outlines 
would first think about the existing street network (this, after all, being 
OpenSTREETMap). So much of the US is still unedited TIGER 2005 data - 
mis-aligned, poorly connected, stale-named, and missing lots of new 
construction from the peak to the end of the housing boom.


Shouldn't we endeavor to make the street network accurate before anything 
else? That's the only way to get people to actually use the map and then, 
hopefully, contribute to it. I've done years of editing in southern 
California and still have to use Bing or Google Maps when I go someplace I 
(or one of the other handful of mappers in this huge area) haven't mapped, 
just for reliability.


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