[Talk-ca] Merging OSM + Geobase

[Dave Hansen]

On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 12:10 -0300, William Lachance wrote:
> I see the argument of not wanting to blow away people's hard work, but
> from my (admittedly NS-centric view), that approach will lead to severe
> limitations in terms of the quality and consistency of the results.

The great thing about the OSM process is that this will fix itself.

My approach for the US was to upload only counties that were completely
untouched by OSM or that had only a few roads.  As time went on, people
would complain that I "missed" their county and ask for me to upload the
whole data set, even when they had already done quite a bit of mapping.
They asked because the TIGER data set had *so* much more content than
they could ever do themselves.

If the Geobase stuff is highly superior to the existing OSM stuff, I
promise you that the mappers doing the OSM work will come to you and ask
for the Geobase data.

-- Dave