Re: [Talk-us] Unintentional improvements in OSM data influencing / improving other databases

2020-09-02 Thread Kevin Kenny
On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 2:48 PM Joseph Eisenberg wrote: > But if we are talking about legal parcel boundaries or legal protected > area boundaries, or administrative limits, then it's not at all possible > for OpenStreetMap users to resolve these conflicts in our database alone. > > What needs to

Re: [Talk-us] Unintentional improvements in OSM data influencing / improving other databases

2020-09-02 Thread Joseph Eisenberg
RE: "Many government and agency data sources are in conflict with each other over the same information; OSM can serve to provide "resolved" versions that are confirmed with ground observation where required." Similar thoughts have been expressed previously in this thread. But if we are talking

Re: [Talk-us] Unintentional improvements in OSM data influencing / improving other databases

2020-09-02 Thread Bradley White
> > I echo this sentiment exactly as having taken place in California and in > my experiences with OSM. This is most certainly a longer-term endeavor > (over several, even many years), but improvements in alignments between > data components which have been entered into OSM from my County GIS, >

[Talk-us] Unintentional improvements in OSM data influencing / improving other databases

2020-09-02 Thread stevea
On September 1, 2020 at 8:07:46 AM PDT, Kevin Kenny wrote: > > In many of these cases OSM has an opportunity to improve the government data. > A mapper can analyze the conflict, sort out the different data sources, > perhaps visit the site in the field, and produce a result that is more >