I think there is a misconception of the loose-term 'imports'. Because data that is 'available', should really JUST be made available as .osm files and/or available as a WMS (underlay map of data to trace over).
As 'Imports', are good, as more data 'available' means that the community on the ground can use the available data & 'drop in' what data they want. Which will improve the map. (so inotherwords, not importing the data is good) What the OSM community does NOT like, is when people "bulk_implop" large datasets, and do not look at what exists (and are not local to the area). Having a 'fixme=needs varification' tag, does NOT help, this practice should be avoided. Since the local area mapper, already varifies the data (and is responsable for it). So this is a reason that 'source=*' might not be needed, since the data is available from the wiki, and is already properly sourced. So the idea that data could be removed if need, is rather far-fetched, because it is technically not possable to remove it 100% as thousands of users are working with the data. If it was tracing from WMS, then it is not possable to accuratly varify the source. My 2 pence, cheers, Sam p.s. If i repeate myself, over and over with different words order .... Eventually it'll be clear. -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blogs: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: samvekemans IRC: irc://irc.oftc.net #osm-ca Canadian OSM channel (an open chat room) @Acrosscanadatrails _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
