[OSM-talk-be] Intro and invitation to Random Hacks of Kindness

[Glenn Plas]

On 05/10/2013 02:03 PM, Ben Abelshausen wrote:
> Importing this data into OSM is never going to work I think, but just 
> like the AGIV data, it can be used to aid mapping. This way we can get 
> the data into OSM to a quality level even exceeding the original data. 
> Something I'm sure data providers are interested in.

Indeed, It would be a disaster importing AGIV data as-is , by itself its 
very valuable but after like housenumbering my town here I can 
positively confirm that it's not up to date with buildings newer than 
like 1/2 years and that it still contains plenty of errors (buildings 
too little/ too much / wrong housenumbers / incomplete ones  (100 vs 
100/1 vs 100/a etc).

But to aid osm mapping and verifying, or doublechecking data, it sure 
helps, but imports will never be as well done as a human being would 
scrutinise the data more thoroughly.

Glenn