[Talk-us] Imports and Mass Edits in the US

[Serge Wroclawski]

Folks,

I know what it's like to be excited about OSM, and I know what it's
like to be frustrated with OSM, struggling with low data quality, or
lack of data altogether.

And then you get access to a large dataset, and you know that having
it in OSM would improve things. It would improve the quality, and
maybe even get people mapping. At the same time, I think many of you
have seen the damage that bad imports can do.

The result is that folks like myself and others are frustrated by the
import process, and folks who have good, useful datasets are frstrated
by the import process.

So I'm proposing a new committee, run by the US Chapter, to help guide
imports and large edits.

This will give step by step guidance to those who want to import data,
and offer the larger community time to review and provide feedback.

When I helped create the US Chapter several years ago, this was one of
the main reasons I thought it should exist, but I think there's
finally the amount of data and interest to justify it.

What do folks think?

- Serge