[Imports] Fwd: Importing West Virginia State Forests Boundary

[Minh Nguyen]

Vào lúc 07:52 2021-08-12, Adam Franco đã viết:
>      > On 12 Aug 2021, at 08:38, Mateusz Konieczny via Imports
>     <imports at openstreetmap.org
>     <mailto:imports at openstreetmap.org>>
>     wrote:
>     I disagree. For simple polygons (few nodes), overlapping ways might
>     be the easiest to maintain representation, but as an editor I would
>     always prefer a multipolygon to tens or hundreds of
>     reused/overlapping nodes in overlapping ways.
> 
> As a heavy land-cover mapper I agree that multipolygons are vastly 
> easier to improve over time than to try to disconnect overlapping ways.
> 
> That said, unless I'm misreading the wiki the import being discussed 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/West_Virginia_State_Forests_Import> 
> is about State Forest (protected area) boundaries not 
> land-cover/land-use. I'd rather not have folks doing land-cover/land-use 
> imports from poor data, but I'm of the opinion that protected area 
> boundaries are often a very good candidate for [careful] importing if 
> the data are of good quality.

I agree, this seems like a pretty reasonable thing to import. Also, we 
aren't talking about a lot of features that would be difficult to clean 
up if things go awry.

The next time someone proposes a building import, I'll be bracing myself 
for a debate about the lack of associatedStreet relations in an 
unrelated address import. 🙈

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minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us