[Talk-us] Proposed automated motorway_link mass edit

[Dave Hansen]

On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 10:35 -0700, Russ Nelson wrote:
> On Jul 17, 2009, at 9:29 AM, David Lynch wrote:
> > Because I and numerous other mappers have put a hell of a lot of time
> > and effort into getting things right, and I don't want anyone breaking
> > it because an algorithm assumes it isn't right.
> 
> Well, I guess that's an argument for only editing data still owned by  
> that DaveHansen character.
> 
> I appreciate that you have invested significant time and effort into  
> getting a particular area into good shape.  But it seems to me that  
> being able to fix 50 times the area you've already edited, at the cost  
> of some damage to your area, is something that you would appreciate is  
> a good thing.  Or is your concern not the map as a whole, but instead  
> the portion of it that you've edited.

This argument really rings true to me.  With the TIGER import, there
were certainly areas of higher-quality data that got destroyed.  But,
certainly the map benefited overall.

There was also another curious side-effect: the areas that *had*
personal attention given to them were actually the ones that it was
easiest to make decisions about overwriting things.  They already had a
loving and caring human to fix them up if anything went wrong.  

-- Dave