[OSM-talk] Zero tolerance on imports

[Kevin Peat]

Peter,

I have nothing against automated edits in general as long as they are
useful, are tested properly and don't overwrite other people's efforts
without agreement. As I mentioned earlier in this thread I think the
difficulty in contacting contributors in an area makes that hard to do.

I am not interested in contributing to Waze but I have skimmed their forums
out of curiosity and they don't seem to have any answers to these problems
as far as I can see. They may have traction in the US but the Waze map of
the UK looks like it was drawn by a five year-old.

In the case of Josh Doe's centreline data if he can't do it himself he
should try to team up with someone who can produce a tool to compare the
highway geometries in the two data-sets and take it from there. Maybe you
could give him a hand with that or know someone who might help?

Kevin




On 21 February 2011 18:03, Peter Budny <peterb at gatech.edu> wrote:

> Okay, even if we accept that -- and many OSM mappers do not, which is
> why there are tens of thousands of route relations in the database --
> who is going to add all those ref tags?
>
> You haven't addressed the original problem, which is that there is a lot
> of editing to be done, some of which is tedious and easily performed by
> computers.
>
> ~ Peter Budny
>
> Kevin Peat <kevin at kevinpeat.com> writes:
>
> > You don't need a route relation to do that just a ref tag.
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> > On 21 February 2011 17:40, Jean-Marc Liotier <jm at liotier.org> wrote:
> >
> >     Navigation, for starters : turn-by-turn indications are improved by
> being
> >     able to mention "turn left on route 35".
> >
> >     Besides, it is static geographic data which fits OpenStreetMap's
> basic
> >     purpose, so as long as it does not step on anyone's toes it is
> relevant
> >     even if there is only one user.
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