Hello, Based on my own long-time thinking and small talk in WhereCamp Berlin I created request for comments on kind of different approach to imports called meta-mapping.
Core of the idea is to avoid external data imports and reserve OSM database for what was meant for: community-sourced (manual) mapping. But it is not plain "banning imports", it is to provide alternative tool (I call it OpenMetaMap) which enables to link various external data sources with OSM data, with much better flexibility than with current import approach. My proposal is in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenMetaMap , any positive and negative comments (especially help to actually implement it) is most welcome. JaakL _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev