[OSM-talk] GNIS quality improvement, was: USGS Topo maps

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 11/28/2011 07:57 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
> * Show a random non-improved GNIS point in your neighborhood - name + map

[...]

> Ideally it would be adaptable to any point data imports that need
> similar cleanup.

I hope we all agree that ideally, such a "cleanup" should happen as part 
of the input, i.e. not "dump shit onto OSM, hope for people to do 
cleanup later" but instead "have people cleanup shit, then add results 
to OSM".

In the case of GNIS this seems to come too late so your approach is the 
best thing to do; but once your quality improvement script exists, it 
must not serve as an excuse to wantonly importing data just because "it 
can be fixed later".

It is ok for a human mapper to add things to the best of their knowledge 
and then have other mappers improve it where necessary; but it is not ok 
for an automated import to do that.

Bye
Frederik

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