[OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Developers requested to help provide"completeness" tools

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

Florian Lohoff wrote:
>Sent: 12 May 2008 8:29 PM
>To: Inge Wallin
>Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Developers requested to help
>provide"completeness" tools
>
>On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 07:06:20PM +0200, Inge Wallin wrote:
>> Yes, but it would be good if we planned for at least some of the
>subsequent
>> levels right from the start.
>
>I support this idea - I would call them levels as some areas might work
>completely different. I would call the different completenesses like
>
>roadcomplete
>cyclewaycomplete
>roadnamecomplete
>landusecomplete
>

There is no reason why contributors could not decide what the list should
be. It's clear then to everyone what has and has not been mapped and gives
the mapper a sense of achievement even if they weren't ever interested in
mapping areas for instance. Someone can add that level of completeness
later.

>etc ... I have no idea about the granularity but in the end it comes
>down to a map never containing ALL interesting data but it would be
>interesting to note which subset it contains or is complete.
>
>The completeness is more or less a feeling of the primary mapper of
>this specific area so it should be taken with a grain of salt i guess.

Yes, Its not a substitute for secondary verification.

Cheers

Andy

>
>But this information would be interesting for a map bug tracker which
>could assign higher prioritys to bugs in "complete" areas or even refuse
>to accept bugs in incomplete areas.
>
>Flo
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