[OSM-talk] Adding vmap0 road data to OSM

[Bruce Cowan]

On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 12:48 -0500, Will Harrison wrote:

> This would benefit the custom scenery project, since once all the
> vmap0 road data have been added to OSM the intent is to use OSM data
> for the scenery. But I think this could also be very helpful to the
> OSM project, as vmap0 contains data for the entire world and it would
> give OSM at least rough coverage of the entire globe. Is anyone
> interested in helping? 

I can see why you'd want to add vmap0 data in places that have no
mapping, but IMHO such bad data should not be added to OSM.

I think having no roads in Flightgear in these areas would be better
than bad roads, saying as this bad data would have to be in OSM.
-- 
Bruce Cowan <bcowan at fastmail.co.uk>