[Imports] [Talk-us] Proposing import of sidewalk data Seattle, WA, USA

[Greg Morgan]

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 11:05 PM, Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/08/2016 14:28, Bryan Housel wrote:
>>
>> ... Given that your team is located in Seattle and is very involved with
>> the local community there, I don’t see any issues.
>>
>
> The major issue I see with
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Seattle,_Washington/Sidewalk_Import is
> that there is no discussion there of how the data is to be maintained.  That
> page talks about it being a "one-time import".
>
> What are the plans to maintain the data going forward?  Are there plans to
> merge changes from the city's dataset when that changes in the future?
>
> Also, how will the data from the city be quality-checked to see how it
> relates to what's on the ground?
>
Andy there are no issues here.  When I add a node via, Potlach, iD, or
JOSM,  I have no future plans for that node.  I don't see why an
import has to be any different.  Your concerns are European density
related.  The pub meetup model does not scale here because of the vast
space and low mapper count.  Why do you think that this data needs to
be quality-checked?  The city has the subdivision plats and CAD
drawings to source the data.  You expect me to GPS every node out
there when it is not possible based on the scale of the western
states.