[Talk-us] Join us for another import party at the L.A. Times June 25

[Rihards]

On 2016.06.30. 17:58, Michael Reichert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Fri, 17 Jun 2016 22:20:46 +0000 schrieb Jonathan Schleuss:
>> The Los Angeles Times will host another import party to push the "Great
>> L.A. County Import" forward. We've imported more than half a million
>> buildings with the great help of locals and the folks from Mapbox.
>
> Did each participant use a separate account for this import?
>
>> My focus is to use this import strengthen the Southern California OSM
>> community. But, the project is open to all. If you're in the area,
>> please join us.
>
> Do you really believe that this helps the local community? A healthy map
> has a strong community and a strong community consists out of people who
> look after their neighbourhood on the map (i.e. keep data up to date).

a good import motivates local mappers. when they see that the map is 
kinda there but a pub, shop or housenumber is missing, it easier for 
them to start.
if they see blank area, they go "why bother".
building outlines are very hard to collect for amateur mappers, and it 
is a large amount of work even with good sources.

i'd like to say thank you to everybody who has done a proper, careful 
building import (no overlaps with existing buildings, no nodes on 
straight sections, orthogonalised etc :) ) - i know it was a lot of work.
...
-- 
  Rihards