[Imports] Handling of existing buildings in NYC import (was Re: Buildings & Address in Washington, DC, USA.)

[Simone Cortesi]

On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Katie Filbert <filbertk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Some of the problematic things I found earlier this week when surveying:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/179039
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/178197
>
> It's difficult to go back and look at the deleted buildings and say which
> were better, but I don't think any were kept as far as i can tell.  We even
> put in addresses! and they were deleted. I don't think that was necessary.

It is easy to do such things if you take advantage of non local
mappers taking decisions based only on satellite imagery and not local
knowledge.

@alex: how many "import guys" were local from NYC compared to non-local?

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