I don’t understand at all how a community project like osmIRL buildings could be utterly frustrating, and I wonder about the flipancy of a comment that the effect is anything like a Tiger import – simply on the basis of accuracy.
The aim of the task is to have a straightforward activity for people to work on together, which we haven’t had in a while. Another aim is to have something that is easy enough to start on as we recruit new people into the community as contributors. The daily contributions extract shows we have doubled the contributors to 30. There will be a second phase, when all the tasks are complete and validated, and there would be even more animations resolving building use types. Ireland’s building equals yes tag was 62% of all building objects when the project started around October 2019 and is 64% only today, was this making things worse? Admittedly while it increases the number of building equals yes objects in number, it doesn’t change the proportion, and it completes the map on a theme the community wanted to go ahead with. The project has a future phase when there will be more added to the buildings now produced by this effort. Right now Kilkenny City 25%, Carlow Town 38% and Waterford City 48% all have building equals yes tags less than what prevailed on the island at the outset. In the recent community hangouts and presentations there has been discussion of techniques already put into practice on how validation reduces tag generality. JOSM filters as well as a 'Second mapper' standpoint are blitzing the building equals yes tag before the tasks get taken down. Nobody seems to think using the filter is hassle to use, or that to select, scroll and tag numerous buildings – so what have we missed? Finally, the osm community worldwide has agreed that building equals yes is not an invalid contribution where the experience level of the mapper is lower, or the satellite imagery is blurred, or there is a community decision to map at scale, with planned and committed passes through that work. Otherwise it wouldn’t exist as a tag, and be the default in the JOSM buildings plugin. This would be why this tag is 75% of the building objects in Europe, which are ubiquitous. If this project delivers on a rate much less than that there ought not to be frustration. There are only two tasks mapped and validated so far, by the time we finish phase 1 there will be a lower percentage of building equals yes, so while we can debate the inaccuracy of the comment about it being akin to a Tiger import, I don't think that the fact that such an assessment is massively premature needs much debate at all. <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie