On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Russ Nelson<r...@cloudmade.com> wrote: > > On Jun 21, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Matt Amos wrote: >> >> we went over this before: if it isn't editable, it shouldn't be in >> OSM. > > And yet state and county borders are already in OSM. > > You seem to not be paying attention to my point: that if we DON'T have > these important legal boundaries in OSM, people will add them. Don't > believe me? Try deleting the New York State border with Pennsylvania, > and see how long it takes for somebody to revert your edit, or worse, > add it back in as a new set of nodes and ways.
and you seem to be not reading the remainder of my email: yes, they're already in OSM. yes, they're already editable. yes, people do alter and improve them. > Yes, I acknowledge your point about people being able to edit things, > and being able to verify things on the ground. > > If (as I assert) it's not possible to keep these things out of the > map, shouldn't we take steps to ensure that when they're in the map, > they're as correct as they can be? absolutely. if you're interested in monitoring the state borders then you'll be interested in a service to get emails or an RSS feed of that area. that way you can watch over that area and ensure it's correct. cheers, matt _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
