[Imports] Fwd: Importing West Virginia State Forests Boundary

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,


On 8/11/21 21:42, Attila Kun wrote:
> I don't know if it's enough to email here(so don't have to forward to 
> import list), but me and Zelonewolf(Brian Sperlongano) are planning to 
> import West Virginia State Forests. I'm doing the paperwork*, Brian the 
> import.

I am a little skeptical about a single person who isn't even from West 
Virginia, doing the import in the whole state. I have also looked at 
ZeLoneWolf's data import in Rhode Island and I find that there are 
serious quality issues with that, which lead me to conclude that I 
wouldn't want ZeLoneWolf run any more imports.

Looking at https://www.openstreetmap.org#map=17/41.83847/-71.78954&layers=D

I find that

* There's a bunch of bubbly residential areas that nobody tracing from 
aerial imagery would classify as such. For example, why is 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/863679643 shaped the way it is and why 
does it have this little hole in the South? If that is the "official" 
data then maybe OSM is better off without it.

* Why do neighbouring large landuse polygons duplicate tens of thousands 
of nodes instead of being modelled as relations both sharing one way?

Furher east, I find https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/685277039 which is 
an older forest that was simply overlaid with new data without any 
attempt at proper conflation.

Where was that huge Rhode Island import even discussed? I notice that 
after the import there have been quite a few fixes and cleanups which 
might have been avoided had there been a proper previous discussion. I 
must say, I've found so many bugs with that in just ten minutes of 
looking, I wonder if it needs to be reverted altogether and re-done 
properly.

And no, as I said above, please no further ZeLoneWolf imports given how 
badly that has gone - at least none without the community taking a very 
close look at the exact import plan *before* anything is executed. (For 
example, since it appears that the plan is to import boundaries here, I 
would be interested to learn of any conflation plans with existing 
administrative boundaries if/where state forests should coincide with them?)

Bye
Frederik

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