<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Frederik Ramm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org" target="_blank">frederik@remote.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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But surely a successful import should at least have some footing in the<br>
local community, should it not? How are you in touch with the local<br>
community, and what about that "local mapping event" you are talking about?<br>
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The reason I am asking is that I am very worried about "import<br>
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globe), then this mechanism won't work and we are looking at TIGER 2.0 -<br>
import a lot of stuff and let someone else deal with it later.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Frederik,</div><div><br></div><div>These are all unfounded fears. We are not looking at a fantasy TIGER 2.0. TIGER 1.0 was a wonderful thing. I didn't have to look up all those road names. I've sent many wonderful hours learning about my part of the world through the TIGER fixup process. Moreover, I am really thankful for two other imports/mechanical edits. Ian Dees imported Geonames in the US. That import added so many interesting deals to the map. I was able and still able to stand on his shoulders and build off that import. The other was the balrog-kun mechanical name expansion. That saved me a ton of work. That mechanical expansion add joy and pleasure to my mapping because I did not have to perform that task. I could map other things.</div><div><br></div><div>I've seen a great deal of time trying to find building heights in my area. They are nonexistent. So this import would add tags to building foot prints already on the map. More than likely the heights are not available to local mappers. I don't see the problem that you do. Adding heights are the last on my list. I wish the import was in my mapping area.</div><div><br></div><div>I do not see the point of these discussions. Frederik, I've seen you revert changes without an alleged discussion yet you have not discussed the rollback. If you would have discussed some of your reverts, I would have said please don't. I had to follow your rollbacks and make the same changes. There was no value added to may manual changes. Moreover, when you enter these discussions, I see no real effort to make sure that the change is safe. You bring up all these make believe fears verses checking out the import methods. Please stay on task.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Greg</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>