[OSM-talk] create a rendering test zone somewhere on the planet ?

[Dave Stubbs]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Pieren Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You can create a standalone .osm file with all this in it if you/we
> > need a test file. That's a much better idea than polluting the
> > database with junk!
>
>
>  ok, forget my comment for developers who have a local environment anyway...
> but I'm only thinking about the 99% of the OSM contributors who will never
> install a renderer but would like to see the best practices described in the
> wiki (when they are) in action.
>  And the database is already polluted by junk, exactly because of lake of
> guidelines.


I have a habit of "correcting" data that is wrong/junk if I find it,
as do many other people.


>  When I say 'island', it could be in the middle of a desert as well and
> tagued as 'test area' or whatever

It really doesn't matter where it is, and if you change the tagging,
that actually causes a problem with the whole base idea, because the
data is no longer representative. For instance, I'd be very tempted to
strip it in osm2pgsql.