[Talk-us] Proposed mechanical edit - remove objects that are not existing according to source of GNIS import that added them
Martijn van Exel
m at rtijn.org
Thu Mar 21 19:23:48 UTC 2019
> On Mar 21, 2019, at 12:35 PM, Mark Wagner <mark+osm at carnildo.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 21:46:59 -0600
> Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org <mailto:m at rtijn.org>> wrote:
>
>>> On Mar 20, 2019, at 9:01 AM, Mateusz Konieczny
>>> <matkoniecz at tutanota.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I plan to run an automated edit that will revert part of the GNIS
>>> import that added them and delete objects that never had any reason
>>> to appear in the OSM database in any form, at least according to
>>> GNIS data.
>>>
>>> Please comment no matter what you think about this idea! I will not
>>> make the edit without a clear support so please comment if you think
>>> that it is a good idea and if you think that it should not be
>>> done.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for bringing the idea up. It actually did come up fairly
>> recently on Slack
>> https://osmus.slack.com/archives/C029HV951/p1550176430103000
>>
>> My view is that we would be missing an opportunity to have mappers
>> review these locations and update the areas concerned. These nodes
>> exist mostly in ‘undermapped' / remote areas that could use some
>> human mapper attention. So I’d be in favor of trying to resolve this
>> using some human driven cleanup first.
>
> My experience is that this will mostly just make things worse.
>
> There was a MapRoulette task a while back for cleaning up
> unmodified GNIS-imported schools. There were only a few of them left
> around me, but the most common result was that an armchair mapper would
> drag the node to a nearby non-house-looking building, trace the
> building, and merge it with the imported node. Not one of these was
> actually a school.
>
Do you think this could have been prevented had there been better instructions?
Martijn
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