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<div><br></div><div>7 Feb 2021, 15:25 by matheus.gomes03@hotmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dear all,<br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It came as a surprise to me this discussion, mainly because, as far as I know (I'm not Spanish but I mapped there sometimes), the Spanish data (from Instituto Geográfico Nacional) is usually very good, and the local community is doing several imports beautifully
(I have yet to see a better Wiki page than the Spanish buildings import [1]).<br></div></blockquote><div><div>Note that complaint is specifically about<br></div><div>diffuse, basically impossible to verify data.<br></div><div><div><br></div></div><div>Noone wants to keep building outline<br></div><div>data out of OSM, while there are big discussions<br></div><div>how to map mountain ranges and is is<br></div><div>something mappable in OSM at all.<br></div><div><div><br></div></div><div>I am also highly dubious about mapping<br></div><div>mountain ranges also manually.<br></div></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I understand the community concerns regarding the data (as all imports should receive some special attention), but I think there is some overreaction that is not productive. The wiki is reasonably well written, and regarding verifiability, what exactly the
mappers are expecting? The Topo IGN map, per [2], shows initially that the data used to exemplify the import looks very good.<br></div></blockquote><div>And what happens when someone <br></div><div>wants to move imported node 5km<br></div><div>toward North?<br></div><div><br></div><div>In case of building it is easy to <br></div><div>answer "is building XYZ at location X, Y".<br></div><div><br></div><div>Mountain ranges are much fuzzier,<br></div><div>making me doubt is it something <br></div><div>fitting OSM at all.</div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Spain is a mountainous country and OSM must reflect that</div></blockquote><div>It does not mean that mountain ranges are</div><div>mappable in OSM</div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">but people don't use OSM because it lacks data, and when you try to import very good data, you can't also do it</span><br></div></blockquote><div>There are many types of data not</div><div>present in OSM at all, and not</div><div>importable, even if data itself is of<br></div><div>high quality.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Mountain ranges are borderline, and</div><div>my request is to consider alternatives.</div><div>For example using external data and OSM data together, <br></div><div>rather than copying this into OSM.</div> </body>
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