On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Peter Budny <pet...@gatech.edu> wrote: > Nathan Edgars II <nerou...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Peter Budny <pet...@gatech.edu> wrote: >>> Nathan Edgars II <nerou...@gmail.com> writes: >>> >>>> It's certainly a bad idea to add the auto-created relations to the >>>> database >>> >>> You're not the first person to say this. You're also not the first >>> person to fail to give a reason why it would be so terrible. >> >> It would be, quite literally, vandalism: adding information that you >> know to be incorrect. > > Is incomplete information incorrect? If so, we've got an awful lot of > human vandals.
No, but TIGER's main problem is not that it's incomplete. > > What makes you think human mappers get everything right all the time? I > believe you're the one who added all the Florida state route > relations... did you actually drive over every mile of road to verify it > before adding it to the relation? Or did you look at the data on the > map (name=, tiger:base_name=, ref=, etc) and create relations from that? I used various sources including personal observations and FDOT information. None of it came from TIGER. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
