[OSM-talk] Data Quality and Mapping for the renderer.

Dave F davefoxfac63 at btinternet.com
Mon Aug 22 14:33:31 UTC 2016


On 22/08/2016 12:40, Simon Poole wrote:
>
> "notifications that data that may be erroneous" please, not "errors".
> The false positive rate of all such tool tends to rather high and
> believing that the tool is right without checking is a sure way to break
> a lot of data.
>
> Simon
>

Indeed. The likes of MapRoulette encourages unverifiable data to be 
added to the database. I find it irritating that, in my locale, I have 
to contact the mapper for between 80 & 90% of their edits.

Dave F.



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