[HOT] Central African Republic import of WRI data

[Ben Abelshausen]

Andrew,

Actually I agree, but I discussed this before with some other OSM/HOT
people (It's been so long I don't remember when or who) and it was said
that using inaccurate data might be worse than nothing.

For the CAR specifically I think using the data might be better than not
using it. There is nothing there, no data at all, for most of the country.
There won't be a mapping community there in the near future... etc.

Met vriendelijke groeten,
Best regards,

Ben Abelshausen
ben.abelshausen at gmail.com
http://twitter.com/xivk

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Andrew Buck <andrew.r.buck at gmail.com> wrote:

> Regarding areas with no imagery.  I would still say to import the roads.
> A couple hundred meters off is a lot, but it is better to have the
> 'connectivity' mapped (i.e. what town connects to what other town) than to
> have nothing at all.  Someone following the road in a car does not mind
> that their GPS tells them they are "beside" the road.  Also, it is my
> understanding that the data has some road names and such so I would import
> them to get that.  They can always be refined later when bing becomes
> available.  The imagery is being added fast, and just in the last year we
> have gone from only a few cities in Africa to much of the continent being
> covered.  I expect much of the rest to come online shortly.
>
> Importing some of the data now and the rest later brings its own problems,
> so I would suggest putting it in.
>
> -AndrewBuck
>
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