• balsoft@lemmy.ml
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    28 days ago

    This doesn’t compensate at all for mapping coverage, which makes it really bad data.

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      28 days ago

      From what little I know of research projects data is never ever complete enough. Or recent enough. Or analysed enough.

      OSM is nice because it’s open source but as a mapper I agree it’s far from complete.

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        28 days ago

        Yes, it is never complete, but you have to compensate for that. Otherwise you kinda end up with a map of openstreetmap coverage quality rather than whatever you were trying to research.