[OSM-talk] Import guidelines & OSMF/DWG governance

[Lester Caine]

Pierre Béland wrote:
>
> I have often seen such arguments against imports. In Canada also, there are
> contributors talking agains Canvec imports and saying we should have more fun
> tracing from GPS.
>
> We have to analyze the problems more seriously and find solutions to them. A
> great work is done in Canada importing Canvec data. And like in France, I dont
> think that this is creating a lot of problems. Experienced mappers are doing a
> great job.

Pierre - I'm not arguing against imports. Only unmanaged ones and ones we do not 
have easy access to the source data. As I understand it you can view the canvec 
data, but is it available as an overlay in an editor? That is the part of the 
jigsaw that I'd like to see handled better, so we can compare data against the 
existing map prior to any import, and are ABLE to analyze just what of the data 
can be imported directly and what needs to be merged in some way? Certainly a 
large section of the OS data is only useful as reference material and any import 
is only going to obliterate more accurate data, so having it available as an 
overlay works well.

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