[Talk-us] Using MapRoulette for imports

[Richard Weait]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net>wrote:

> On 12/18/12 9:51 PM, Brian DeRocher wrote:
>
>> Food for thought... Imagine we performed a large data import into a side
>> table, then used MapRoulette to overlay that data on OSM, allow users to
>> review additions, and import features one at a time.  Would that be better?
>>
>>  this could work for some imports. there might be timeliness and QC issues
> for others, though.


Any use of an external source that fails to consider other sources is Just
Bad Mapping.  Using something like maproulette to consider the existing
state of the database before including data from an external source is one
positive step.  I would suggest, though, that this sort of mapping
far-from-home is generally lower quality and should be avoided.  Local
knowledge is King.
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