[Talk-ca] Cleanup

[Paul Norman]

> From: Richard Weait [mailto:richard at weait.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 10:24 AM
> To: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap
> Subject: [Talk-ca] Cleanup
> 
> 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?
> 

Not yet. I'm working on cleaning up some bad imports from accounts that have
not agreed to the CTs and would like to finish these first.

Also, what do you mean by known-bad accounts?