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

[Charlotte Wolter]

Serge,

         This is a good idea.
         I have a large file of data from the Acoma tribe, but my 
efforts to negotiate the import wiki have been fruitless. I can't 
made heads or tails of it.
         Further, I don't know if it's the kind of data we want 
(though they say it is public domain and gave permission in writing). 
It is road center lines for the whole reservation. I remember a 
remark somewhere in this forum that center lines are not the best 
data. At any rate, I'm not a good judge of whether or not it is what we want.
         In addition, I've already done work on the main roads, 
though often I'm lacking a name or number.
         And, I don't have tools to exmine a data file to see if it 
is congruent with what OSM can use.
         So, for many reasons, having a knowledgeable group take this 
on seems to me like a great idea.

Best,

Charlotte

At 06:42 AM 12/17/2012, you wrote:
>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
>
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