[Talk-ca] Canadian imports: good or bad?

[James Ewen]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Stewart C. Russell <scruss at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks to all who have provided imports. Keep it up. We have a MAP now!

In some areas... there are still vast expanses with little to no
information available in OSM.

Take this area in Saskatchewan for example:

http://osm.org/go/Wk7dy_x--

A pristine area, not sullied by those nasty imports, which chase away
the avid OSM enthusiast looking for pristine areas of blank canvas
upon which to tag their cartographic masterpiece.

CanVec data is available in this area, but no one has taken up the
challenge of manually verifying and vetting the process of moving data
from CanVec to the OSM database.

As Andrew pointed out, it is far less daunting to go in and tweak a
road, add more data points to a shore line, or add a POI to an
existing area than it is to be faced with an absolutely blank screen.
Writer's block morphs into Cartographer's Terror.

--
James
VE6SRV