[OSM-talk] Import guidelines review
Pieren
pieren3 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 6 14:25:10 BST 2012
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> A note of caution though; in France, the approach "make available instead if
> import" has been tried for buildings as far as I know, and it has lead to a
> very small number of people taking the data that was "made available" and
> importing it all over the place, with essentially the same results as a
> standard "empty the bucket" import - lots of buildings in places where no
> mappers are.
We also see often newcomers starting to draw manually 2 or 3 building
footprints from the aerial imagery (because they see nice ones in
neighbourhoods) and stoping to contribute when they realize the effort
it would imply. They simply don't realize that a building footprints
repository "ready to be merged and maintained" exists somewhere...
We know that we had some mass-importers not taking care about our
recommendations but, as a responsible "local community", we have no
possibility to restrain or block them (and we know that DWG is not
reacting fast enough).
Pieren
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