On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote:
> OSM is about community first, and about data second. (This is trivial > and not up for discussion - if we lose the data but still have people we > can re-create the data, but if we lose the people then we're done. If > anyone is of the opinion that data is more important than people, don't > read on - we live in different universes.) Yep, that's where imports vs anti-imports camps are fundamentaly disagreeing. For me, OSM is obviously about free geodata first. And building a community is just one means among others to reach this primary goal. Imports is another one. If imported data is lost, someone can re-import. If a new version of the dataset is released, someone else can update it in OSM (carefully). I see imported datasets really like a group of external contributors and the importer as a gateway between two communities. But you are right on one point : bad imports can create more damages than bad individual contributors. In this way, I agree that imports need some additional control. Pieren _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
