> On Mar 21, 2019, at 12:35 PM, Mark Wagner <mark+...@carnildo.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 21:46:59 -0600 > Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org <mailto:m...@rtijn.org>> wrote: > >>> On Mar 20, 2019, at 9:01 AM, Mateusz Konieczny >>> <matkoni...@tutanota.com> wrote: >>> >>> I plan to run an automated edit that will revert part of the GNIS >>> import that added them and delete objects that never had any reason >>> to appear in the OSM database in any form, at least according to >>> GNIS data. >>> >>> Please comment no matter what you think about this idea! I will not >>> make the edit without a clear support so please comment if you think >>> that it is a good idea and if you think that it should not be >>> done. >> >> >> Thanks for bringing the idea up. It actually did come up fairly >> recently on Slack >> https://osmus.slack.com/archives/C029HV951/p1550176430103000 >> >> My view is that we would be missing an opportunity to have mappers >> review these locations and update the areas concerned. These nodes >> exist mostly in ‘undermapped' / remote areas that could use some >> human mapper attention. So I’d be in favor of trying to resolve this >> using some human driven cleanup first. > > My experience is that this will mostly just make things worse. > > There was a MapRoulette task a while back for cleaning up > unmodified GNIS-imported schools. There were only a few of them left > around me, but the most common result was that an armchair mapper would > drag the node to a nearby non-house-looking building, trace the > building, and merge it with the imported node. Not one of these was > actually a school. >
Do you think this could have been prevented had there been better instructions? Martijn
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