[Talk-ca] Cleanup

[Corey Burger]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
> Most of the Canadian data that needs cleaning is very low impact.
>
> Two of the high-volume decline accounts are primarily imports that
> have not been subsequently edited.  That means the effected data can
> easily be re-imported for a net-zero change.
>
> I recommend that we remove that data now, without delay.  That will
> simplify current cleanup activities by:
> - removing trivial doomed data
> - making interesting data cleaning opportunities easier to see
>
> I'd like to request that the data working group purge that data for
> us.  What do you think about requesting the removal of objects that
> are:
>
> - created by the known-bad accounts
> - version 1 (that is, they have not been modified by another mapper)
> - not ways tagged natural=coastline
>
> That will reduce the cleanup in Canada by about an order of magnitude
> with zero negative effect.
>
> Thoughts?  Request this of DWG, or no?

I like this idea. Getting moving on this sort of thing early is fairly key.

Corey