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Richard,<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>We
need:<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>1. More
people. A big part of the map is untouched. We could reach out more to
the educational community to get middle-school and high-school students
involved.<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>2. Better
training for people who are new to OSM. I think learnosm.org is very
good. I'm a little apprehensive that iD is too geeky for people who are
not coders.<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>3. Clear
priorities. If I've just joined OSM, and I'm rarin' to go, what should I
do first? I don't mean that we should constrain people's creativity, but
a little guidance would be helpful. Should they align streets, check
street names, add all street lights? Find all turn restrictions in their
area? What kinds of things would improve the quality of the data? I have
no agenda here. I'm waiting to be guided, too.<br><br>
Charlotte<br><br>
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At 01:28 PM 5/31/2013, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On 5/31/13 3:15 PM, Frederic
Julien wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Dear all,<br><br>
I'm working on a presentation and interested to hear your thoughts. What
are the top 2-3 changes that could improve OSM data quality? That could
be processes, tools, methods, training, peer review, attributes,
etc.<br>
</blockquote>at one level, i agree with Clifford Snow's comment that
first you need<br>
to define data quality.<br><br>
at another level, i think that we can talk about the following:<br><br>
1) consistency in tagging. editor improvements, better documentation,
better<br>
training materials can all help with this<br><br>
2) improved processes and controls for data import (this is work that is
happening<br>
on the US import committee). there are a lot of
imports of the past that suffer<br>
from Quality Control issues, and lots of imports that
never should have been<br>
done because of problems with the data
quality.<br><br>
3) in the US (and you did ask on talk-us), identifying and dealing with
the shaky<br>
Tiger data from the 2007 tiger import. some of this
has been done, but it's an<br>
ongoing effort and is one of those things that is
easier to say than it is to do<br><br>
richard<br><br>
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