[Talk-ca] Ottawa import: deleting existing content

[James]

Your example for building deletion, has 0 building deletion

https://overpass-api.de/achavi/?changeset=47337186

On Mar 31, 2017 10:05 PM, "Kyle Nuttall" <kyle.nuttall at hotmail.ca> wrote:

> From what I've seen, the address interpolations are very inaccurate. The
> ends are not position properly, sometimes there will be odd numbers on an
> even way (and vise versa), sometimes the addresses are backwards, sometimes
> on the wrong side of the street, sometimes both.
>
> 'Okay' data is better than no data but with the actual individual
> addresses now in Ottawa, there's good data that supercedes this bad data.
>
> In my opinion these interpolations are actually making Ottawa worse and I
> question the necessity of them.
>
> Cheers,
> Kyle
>
> On Mar 31, 2017 9:48 PM, James <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just an FYI canvec is not the best in Ottawa:
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9ueWCOgxq2GT0JfTkRnb2JXcTQ/
> view?usp=drivesdk
>
>
> On Mar 31, 2017 9:37 PM, "Stewart C. Russell" <scruss at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It seems that some of the import users didn't get the “Don't delete
> stuff” memo. User carpbunker is deleting address interpolation ways
> (example: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/47333119) and existing
> buildings (example: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/47337186).
> Please stop doing that. You need to work around existing contributions.
>
> I'd left changeset comments, but they had not been responded to until I
> threatened to talk this to talk-ca.
>
> The user claims to be deleting "bad address imports", but didn't discuss
> how those previous contributions were bad here before unilaterally
> deciding to delete nodes. Their import-only account is now a mess of
> imports and deletions and will be hard to unpick.
>
>  Stewart
>
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