[OSM-talk] Fwd: Boundaries in Haiti

[Jonas Krückel]

Am 16.01.2010 um 20:06 schrieb Frederik Ramm:

> Hi,
> 
> Frédéric Bonifas wrote:
>> If there is a better method, then the only thing to do is to revert
>> the changeset 3632884 :
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/3632884
> 
> This import does not meet normal OSM import quality standards and under 
> normal circumstances I would probably revert it until someone has the 
> time & diligence to do it properly. (The boundaries do not re-use the 
> existing coastline but instead duplicate it in a rough form; where tho 
> administrative areas meet, ways are not re-used either but duplicated.)
> 
> Usually, while we apply the rule "better crappy data than no data at 
> all" for anything surveyed by humans, we are more strict with imports, 
> and we ask people to either do it right or leave it for someone who can.
> 
> But of course this is an exceptional situation in that many people seem 
> to be using the map data *now* rather than some time later when we had 
> the time to polish it, so it was probably good to import the data, buggy 
> as it is.

I agree.
If you can provide a better import, why not just do it (may take some time of course) and revert the old import then?

Jonas