Vladimir Vyskocil wrote:
There are some excellent examples of how mapping should be done all over the
world. But I do hope we have shown that a large percentage of the data STILL
needs a lot of work? At the end of the day this is more about education of
mappers and how to get the best out of the material available. In hindsight I
think there is some agreement that perhaps the data should not have been made
'generally' available and that mappers were monitored a little more as to their
use of the data? The horse has bolted now, so tools to clean up are now needed
:(
In SOME areas the cadastre is ugly with several strange shaped blocks sort of
grouped together vaguely around the location of a clean square building on the
imagery ... that is what is irritating ...
Yes it's the actual situation, it is like some other big imports : TIGER, PGS
coastline,..., it's a work in progress and the community is improving things,
it's OpenStreetMap !
I think OSM is better with this data in than without.
Lessons have been learnt!
The 'Proposal for import guidelines' thread seems to have petered out?
Nothing seems to have changed :) but I get a feeling that people understand we
are all just trying to help ... the British way is always to jump in with the
size nine boots :(
We don't have the resources to do some of the 'big' things that need doing, so
tools like http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr and the other checking tools are
essential. However it's a bit like the 'apple' problem - just where do some of
these tools work? Actually I think this is perhaps another point for the
'layers' discussion? If there was a layer with the coverage of a tool then it
could be used to identify where that tool is functional? Of cause I do get very
concerned when I see 'Raw Data Editor' ... yes we have to trust people, but are
the safeguards in place to cope with making that freely available? I work with
XML data and I would still be nervous editing it without the right tools!
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