On 12/23/19 18:42, stevea wrote: > One more thing we might potentially learn from our (OSM-US') > experience (of the TIGER import of 2007-8), would be to insist upon a > high bar for such large-scale imports in the future (this was our > largest, without a doubt): the proposers of the import must > "pre-load for the back-end" a renderer that will both display and > foster such goal-oriented tools to "finish the job with high-quality > AFTER the import." Import proposers would be required to author and > maintain this renderer / server for as long as satisfactory > QA-completion of the import takes.
I agree that we needed and still need a way to clean up all the remaining untouched TIGER data. However, without the TIGER import, the same 11-12 years would have been spent surveying and naming the roads one by one and tracing them from (sometimes outdated) satellite/aerial photos and we would probably still be way behind where we are with the TIGER import. If it had been on me to trace my neighborhood from a blank slate when I first started mapping, I might well have given up on OSM at that point. -- Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us