> Wholesale deletion of the work of many volunteers without their > consent seems even less likely to generate a positive outcome. I > would consider that wholesale deletion to be vandalism.
I strongly agree. Manually edited data should never be removed and replaced automatically with a data import. Imported data likely contains errors and omissions and does not contain additional information (such as one way streets and POIs). Instead, one should clean up the data by surveying and by using validation tools such as "keep right" (keepright.ipax.at). To clean up an area quickly, it may be useful to copy and paste missing data from GeoBase, as it is generally fairly accurate (though it does not include one way streets, and new roads built in the last few years tend to be missing). _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca