On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think the NHD "import" is a good example of a well-intentioned importer > (me) gone wrong. I had initially planned to import the whole darn thing in > one swoop, but various technical and life challenges came up before I could > get it going. While I was working on those issues, people started importing > it themselves (sometimes marking so on the wiki, sometimes not). Now that > there are some areas imported, the import of the whole dataset becomes > infinitely harder because we have to match existing data with new OSM-ified > data.
But how is this any different from importing it into an area where people have already mapped some lakes from aerials? Personally I think the best US example of a bad import is the "environmental hazards". _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
