On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Thomas Davie <tom.da...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 21 Feb 2011, at 07:09, yvecai wrote: > > > IMO, 'imports' should be simply considered as datasources, not data. > > We lack tools to properly use this data. Having great tools like for > imagery or GPS tracks in the various editors, maybe with a copy/paste > feature to import data semi-manually would be very valuable. > > Then the 'import' job could just be to make the datasource easy to use to > contributors. > > A server to centralize this datasets could help for visibility. > > Just to throw another anecdote out there – I did look at OSM many years > ago. At the time I thought "pfffft, they haven't even got my country on the > map, let alone the little town I'm in, there's no way this'll get anywhere". > A few years later I became a contributer because there was at least *some* > data available that made the map useful – all I had to do was make it *more* > useful. > > What I'm saying is that to me, no data was more of a turn off than some > data. > > I'd suggest that instead of simply banning imports we need better tools for > monitoring map quality and for showing users what our monitoring tool thinks > of their area. If we tell new users "hey, look at this bug list/source/date > of origin overlay and see what you can add/change/delete/fix/..." rather > than simply presenting them with a map that may or may not be correct we > might get more communities spring up. > > Essentially – tell people what they can do to help more clearly! > > Bob > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > India had very low coverage, and even now many areas lack coverage. whenever I go to a new area and try mapping it, I see lot of roads where there are no roads, infact there cannot be roads. Just some junk data imported. Its such a big mess, and often I have to do bulk deletes in remove areas. Infact sometimes I refrain, because I cannot tell the actual good data from junk data due to poor quality of satellite imagery. I would not advocate "banning" imports, but restricting them is a very good idea.
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