>From what I understand TIGER data is very poor quality to begin with and is at a federal level, this study doesnt take into account local GIS data(say a city or a province/state data) which often is more accurate. It seems fixated on one data import instance vs many in statististics their sample size would be too small to draw a conclusion
On Mon, Jul 9, 2018, 5:05 AM Warin, <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 09/07/18 18:35, Christoph Hormann wrote: > > > > And if you want to know about how to successfully map and build a local > > mapping community in a large and sparsely populated country and are fed > > up with the namby-pamby western Europeans who don't know a thing about > > this maybe talk to the Russians... > > Yep. > > ---------------- > > All to easy to be critical .. but so what? > Getting people to contribute to the map is what it is about. > There is one guy on Quilpie Queensland Australia who has made good > contributions to the map - he is local .. so knows what is there. > The edits may not be the 'best' but they do indicate what is there.. I've > edited some of them to make them OSM 'better' but tried to keep the > original information. > Yet to contact him to let him know .. but good on him for putting his foot > in the water. > Don't think there is much chance of getting a local group out there .. > unless you count 1 as a group. > And maybe one is all it takes in smaller places. > Officially Quilpie's population is less than 600. > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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