[Tagging] Hotel dataset import? / Re: Baby-sitting

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Mar 13, 2019, 2:34 PM by cascafico at gmail.com:

> > Il giorno mer 13 mar 2019 alle ore 12:16 Tom Pfeifer <> t.pfeifer at computer.org <mailto:t.pfeifer at computer.org>> > ha scritto:
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> > I think you misunderstand. OSM is based on locally sourced, handcrafted data. That creates the high quality
> Have youi ever seen hot tasks results? Huge building polys, mixed misalignments, nonxistent tags... lots of poor quality stuff and, worst of all, everything mixed to (few) high quality surveys... but it seems they are useful...of course they are: later you can improve them.
> > Import means data are copied from another database into OSM. That means, somebody else collected the data. This collector has made his own mistakes. All databases contain errors, or outdated items, even if they are labelled official, governmental etc.
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Extremely low quality of HOT mapping (in part, maybe mostly remote mapping, not local surveys)
is other big problem and I would not lump HOT organized mapping with local mappers.
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