[Talk-us] School bus routes?

[Richard Welty]

On 4/10/11 1:39 PM, Alan Mintz wrote:
> At 2011-04-10 09:42, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
>> I came across a relation for a school bus: 
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/239393
>> Isn't this a little too much detail for OSM?
>
> A single relation? Really? We map lots of private-access things, like 
> driveways and access roads, private clubs, etc. As far as volume, 
> fighting with limits caused by import of tens of thousands of 
> individual non-streams in the desert, landuse shapes that were 
> over-digitized by an order of magnitude, individual trees, etc. all 
> seem more realistic things to focus on limiting, no?
>
> Use of OSM by schools is a great use of both their and our resources. 
> The only note I'd be sending the user is to encourage them to import 
> more of their bus routes and show others how to do so.
but they do vary from year to year. i worry about importing such data then
failing to maintain it. it's very subject to bit rot.

richard