[Talk-ca] CanVec Import

[Olivier Hill]

Thank you Daniel.

The situation you are describing is exactly what is currently being
done in 031G08, and I'm not too happy about it.

Features from CanVec have been modified since, and re-imported on top.
This has the consequence of destroying the many contributions done by
people around the area.

Personally, seing this makes contributing a complete non-sense for me.

The CanVec data is gold and I'm thrilled you and NRCan makes it all
possible. However people need to realize that they can take that data
and manually import it, making a decision along the way which features
are still accurate and which features were already mapped.

Anyhow... time to celebrate new year's eve ;)

Thanks,
Olivier

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Daniel Begin <jfd553 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I agree with Olivier,
>
> It certainly needs more effort but the result is there.  Blind import never
> helps.  It just mess-up with others work.
>
> Blind Canvec import could have been done by NRCan, messing-up all the work
> done by each OSM contributor. It doesn't help the project to have the
> impression that our work is not respected because a bunch of data is dump
> over what we have already map...
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:talk-ca-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Olivier Hill
> Sent: December-31-10 11:50
> To: talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [Talk-ca] CanVec Import
>
> Hello all,
>
> I would like to remind everyone not to blindly import CanVec tiles on OSM.
>
> I have recently seen tiles uploaded blindly, duplicating nodes and
> duplicating features that were already imported (like wooded areas,
> lakes, rivers, etc.)
>
> I know it is tempting to see more data on OSM, but dirty data has no
> value. Uploading tiles in batch is not crowd sourcing either as it can
> be easily done with software.
>
> Personally, I prefer less data but with better quality than having to
> validate everything that has been imported again and again. This can
> of course be discussed here, others might have different opinions.
>
> Now, private messages have been sent to specific authors. If no
> answers provided, we will have to make the choice to revert the
> changesets or not.
>
> Thank you for your understanding (and inputs).
>
> Best regards,
> Olivier
>
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