I am very sympathetic to what I sense to be Jason's (and Michael's and others') frustrations. It's quite clear there are a *very* large number of imports that have contributed to the body of data that is OSM (Incomplete list here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Import).
Hopefully, this frustration hasn't gone to waste. : ) I think this thread has generated some thoughtful commentary (see: Ian's statements below & a great email off-thread that Serge sent me) that I hope will be integrated into DWG-sanctioned guidelines for imports. For those not on imports@, I've sent a separate note to the DWG asking for clarification on where to look for their guidelines. - Jeff On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > Your original question was "what should the exact criteria be for > including an 'open space' parcel in OSM?" and I think your answer is that > there shouldn't be exact criteria. As frustrating as it is sometimes, there > aren't exact criteria for anything in OSM. > > Having said that: you should map things that are verifiable by another > mapper on the ground (parks, schools, hospitals, named open spaces) and you > should not import generic parcel data. You agreed with that in your second > sentence, but there were plenty of messages in this thread talking about it > :). > -- Jeff Meyer Global World History Atlas www.gwhat.org j...@gwhat.org 206-676-2347
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