Pieren wrote:
Now if there is a substantial set of data available which we are allowed to >import then that data should be available ... as an overlay or some other >way ... such as the OS data is available as overlays we can trace from.
Seriously, if OS opens the shapefiles of all detailed building footprints, everybody in UK will continue to trace manually each building over raster images ?
Well since those details on OS are crap we are better tracing the building from the imagery which is the main reason *I* don't want people doing mass uncontrolled imports ;) Fixing poor data takes longer than manually adding clean stuff.
My point is that in the past mass imports have been from data that we had no means of reviewing. If people are 'processing' that data and then importing it then it makes things even more difficult. Personally I'd prefer we had a properly managed overlay system so this sort of raw data can be imported and then processed where we can all review it.
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