Re: [openrailwaymap] [Imports] Thoughts about importing a whole country's (NL) railway data
Hi,
On Sa, 2015-03-28 at 13:36 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
Hi!
> I myself (one of the developers of OpenRailwayMap) am against importing
> railway data. OpenStreetMap is not a 0-Euro data center for geodata. OSM
> is a project where /people/ collect data and care for it.
>
> Because the Netherlands already have mapped railway lines, you have to
> preserve the objects' history if you import railway data. This makes an
> mechanical import is nearly impossible.
So, instead of having good data in openstreetmap, we keep bad data, because
they have "history"?
We should aim to have best available data in openstreetmap.
Pavel
what Michael means is that importing railway data is very difficult in a
country like the Netherlands, because there are already lots of mapped
railway details. Automatic or semi-automatic importing of data would
cause conflicts with existing data (duplicates, broken tagging, etc.).
To avoid such problems and ensure a high data quality, this data has to
be "imported" manually. Like Michael guessed, providing a WMS service
seems to be the best solution. Mappers could use this service as a
background layer in editors.
Regards
Alex
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