On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 10:35 -0700, Russ Nelson wrote: > On Jul 17, 2009, at 9:29 AM, David Lynch wrote: > > Because I and numerous other mappers have put a hell of a lot of time > > and effort into getting things right, and I don't want anyone breaking > > it because an algorithm assumes it isn't right. > > Well, I guess that's an argument for only editing data still owned by > that DaveHansen character. > > I appreciate that you have invested significant time and effort into > getting a particular area into good shape. But it seems to me that > being able to fix 50 times the area you've already edited, at the cost > of some damage to your area, is something that you would appreciate is > a good thing. Or is your concern not the map as a whole, but instead > the portion of it that you've edited.
This argument really rings true to me. With the TIGER import, there were certainly areas of higher-quality data that got destroyed. But, certainly the map benefited overall. There was also another curious side-effect: the areas that *had* personal attention given to them were actually the ones that it was easiest to make decisions about overwriting things. They already had a loving and caring human to fix them up if anything went wrong. -- Dave _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
