[OSM-newbies] Editing a gps trace

[Dave F.]

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> Both of those problems are trivial to fix and I've mass-fixed a lot of
> those easily. It's much better to have data like that in the DB than
> having none at all which is often the alternative if you make people
> manually trace things.
I'm glad you have both the time & patience, but I really think it's 
better & more efficient if the originators of these traces tided them up 
themselves.

I'm not sure about this, but does OSM benefit from having people upload 
inaccurate data & then not bothering to correct it?

I realize that TIGER is mass automatic upload & therefore on a larger 
scale, but the main criticism of it, from what I'm aware of, was its 
inaccuracies & the time others had to spend manipulating it.

Cheers
Dave F.