[OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Addressing Question

[Ian Dees]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Apollinaris Schoell <aschoell at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On 12 Nov 2009, at 6:14 , Andy Allan wrote:
>
> > I disagree there. It's much better to put the effort in during the
> > initial import, than to import things badly and try to fix it up
> > later. We've been working on lots of post-import fixups in the last 6
> > months and it's much harder than everyone assumes. The 4 months to
> > remove TIGER node tags is a case in point - it took less time than
> > that to import them!
> >
>
> +10
> Give everyone a chance to work in a constructive way and don't expect
> others to clean the mess bad import left behind.
> No wonder there are only few motivated mappers in US. In Canada they
> do a much better job in integrating the community and don't import
> every shape file blindly just because it's available.
>

Not to start a holy war over what community is better, but there weren't a
whole lot of mappers in the US (at least on talk or talk-us) when we started
doing the TIGER import...
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