<div dir="ltr">There sure is a huge amount of imported data in OSM, but I don't see what's frustrating about distinguishing between useful and not-useful data imports. What we've been discussing here is what sort of data should be imported and if it's useful.<br>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Jeff Meyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeff@gwhat.org" target="_blank">jeff@gwhat.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I am very sympathetic to what I sense to be Jason's (and Michael's and others') frustrations. It's quite clear there are a *very* large number of imports that have contributed to the body of data that is OSM (Incomplete list here: <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Import" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Import</a>).<div>
<br></div><div>Hopefully, this frustration hasn't gone to waste. : ) I think this thread has generated some thoughtful commentary (see: Ian's statements below & a great email off-thread that Serge sent me) that I hope will be integrated into DWG-sanctioned guidelines for imports. For those not on imports@, I've sent a separate note to the DWG asking for clarification on where to look for their guidelines.</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Jeff</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 3:23 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>Your original question was "<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">what should the exact criteria be for including an '</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">open space' parcel in OSM?" and I think your answer is that there shouldn't be exact criteria. As frustrating as it is sometimes, there aren't exact criteria for anything in OSM.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Having said that: you should map things that are verifiable by another mapper on the ground (parks, schools, hospitals, named open spaces) and you should not import generic parcel data. You agreed with that in your second sentence, but there were plenty of messages in this thread talking about it :).</span></div>
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