[Talk-GB] New mapper has imported all Nottingham street lights

[SK53]

The main reason why this data set is not useful is that the PFI contractor
running Nottingham Streetlights is about 40% through a programme to replace
them all. Broadly speaking I'm against imports if not thought through and
not done without some consultation with local mappers. I am, however,
wholly against imports which will rapidly refer to objects which dont
exist, and which likely impose some burden of maintenance on those who map
in the area regularly.

The NaPTAN import of 2009, for which I was responsible in Nottingham and
Notts, shows what happens to such data.

Jerry


On 30 July 2014 18:12, Brian Prangle <bprangle at gmail.com> wrote:

> The source is opendata from Nottingham and the data refers to a physical
> entity- so why revert it except to enforce a point of etiquett? The
> criterion of usefulness is not valid. I thought the whole point of entering
> data is that someone somewhere will find a use for it - you might not see
> its usefulness, but how can you know if it's not of some use to someone
> else? Contact the user and try to engage them - not piss them off  by
> removing their hard work
>
> Regards
>
> Brian
>
>
> On 29 July 2014 21:51, SK53 <sk53.osm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Don't need to say much more, other than it's an undiscussed import and if
>> we'd thought it would be useful could have done it anytime in the past 18
>> months.
>>
>> Changeset is : https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/24412110
>>
>> Will plan to revert in 1 days time if no further action by the mapper.
>>
>> Jerry
>>
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