[OSM-talk] Import guidelines review

[Maarten Deen]

On 2012-06-07 00:20, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> 2012/6/7 Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us>:
>> I've only been involved with OSM for a short while, but I believe 
>> that
>> imports do help.  I have fixed some of the bad TIGER imports but 
>> without
>> them much of the US wouldn't be mapped.
>
>
> That is an open question. Maybe there would be more mappers if all 
> the
> data was crowdsourced. It is much more fun for many mappers to be the
> first to draw a road than to fix errors in apparently complete data.
> But we will never know, what actually would have happened if we 
> didn't
> import the Tiger. Maybe you're right and there would just be an 
> almost
> empty map...

Until you hold a survey, nobody knows. The Netherlands was completely 
filled with AND data and I'm very happy with that. It meant that there 
was a working correct baseline to work from. Germany and Belgium were 
all OSM mapped, and still there are area's with lesser coverage.
Especially in remote areas of the world the coverage is poor without 
proper imports. It is true that imports should be correct. The IGBE 
import in Brazil is not so good.

But on the whole I am very happy with the imports.

Regards,
Maarten