[talk-au] Vicmap data copying

[Steve Bennett]

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Nick Hocking <nick.hocking at gmail.com>wrote:

> Steve wrote
>
> "IMHO some small scale imports may be useful, but from my comparisons, the
> VicMap data is not necessarily "better" than OSM. It often has stuff OSM
> doesn't, but sometimes that includes spurious stuff like roads that no
> longer exist, never did, etc."
>
>
> Thanks Steve,
>
> As far as importing goes, I'm only talking about house numbers (since they
> are so hard to collect by survey).
>

Yeah, house numbers are probably a really good example where in most places
we have zero data.


> I definitely think that road names must NOT be imported but added
> individually, where current osm data and bing imagery indicate that there
> really is a road (currently OSM unamed) there.
>
>

Yeah. I'm still deciding what to do about places where Vicmap shows a track
in the bush that can't be seen on any imagery - probably because the
vegetation is too dense.

Steve
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