[Imports] [OSM-talk] amenity=bicycle_repair_station :::: only 18 so far

[Serge Wroclawski]

Bryce,

After reading through this thread, I just don't see this dataset as
being high enough of quality to import.

Arguing that users will be free to move objects does not jive with the
~10 years experience we have in OSM, and nearly that long with
imports. Imported data is rarely touched, even when the quality is low
(ie TIGER).

We have a similar bike rack import here in NYC and it's been
relatively untouched because users don't know what rack to move, ie
what rack corresponds to what, and it's very hard to identify what
objects need modification.

I think this is a nice idea, but reading through the problems of this
import, I think that if there's a specific project that could use this
data, they should use it separately from OSM and then try to bring in
manually defined data, rather than putting it into OSM first and
hoping things improve on their own.

- Serge