<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Corey Burger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:corey.burger@gmail.com">corey.burger@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div class="im">> 1) start fresh (streets/road-wise), enjoy correct topology and overall<br>
> consistency for the whole Canada from the start, and correct/add to out-of-date data from GeoBase.<br>
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Under no circumstances should we be deleting already collected data.<br>
Correct data is far less important than mappers and deleting data that<br>
people have already poured a lot of work into is just going to piss<br>
people off and make them leave the project.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have to agree with this feeling -- having done a bit of work in my local area, it would more then annoy me if it was all deleted for some supposedly more "authoritative" work.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We're looking for the best map, not the map that is the fastest to get up. Tiger, which contains far more data then Geobase, used a complimentary approach, IIRC.</div><div><br></div><div>My 2cents,</div>
<div>Gerald</div></div>