[Talk-us] MassGIS Building Import - process

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 14.12.2012 05:12, Jason Remillard wrote:
> - How hard do we work on the manual imports. Do we stop doing them if
> the data looks really good, and just run the script, or do we keep doing
> the manual imports until we tire of it.  Running the script sooner, gets
> the map better quicker, and lighter OSM users can probably handle
> cleaning up the small 1/500 errors.

My usual lament:

1. The map is not "better" just because "more is on it".

2. If you cannot be bothered to fix problems then why should others be? 
What is your plan for growing the community to a point where it can 
maintain the data you plan to dump onto OSM?

It is a common scenario to see importers aim for a quick win ("look how 
much better we've made the map") and then let others clean up the mess. 
In programming, this is called "technical debt" - in order to be able to 
present nice results quickly you add some problems to your code which 
have to be cleaned out later. Sometimes there's a good reason for 
incurring such debt (e.g. because a deadline forces you to presents 
results quickly no matter how rotten your code is on the inside).

What is your external deadline that would prevent you from doing things 
right?

Bye
Frederik

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