<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Serge Wroclawski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emacsen@gmail.com" target="_blank">emacsen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="im"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Ian Dees <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ian.dees@gmail.com" target="_blank">ian.dees@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>But your statement does remind me of a good point: those that claim imports harm community have not shown any data supporting that viewpoint.</div>
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</blockquote></div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">I have anecdotal evidence to that effect, which is that I've personally had trouble with imported data, knowing how to handle it. But I'm serious about both sides showing this to be or not be the case. It would be hard to study, though.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>My anecdotal evidence shows the opposite: people are more excited about OSM in Chicago with the buildings import from last year. I've had several mappers at my (admittedly infrequent) meetups that are excited to find their own building and improve it. Existing OSM mappers were excited about having more detail in the area and having a base for improving POI mapping.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Having said that, there are some new mappers that get confused about how iD handles with the density of buildings in Chicago. Mostly it's just slow on all but the fastest machines, but sometimes they accidentally click on stuff that wouldn't be a problem if there was less data.</div>
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