Just to add a comment about local mappers sometimes there just aren't three local mappers within 50 kms to form a local community to bless an import.
Cheerio John On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 11:52, Jarek Piórkowski <ja...@piorkowski.ca> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 06:18, Christoph Hormann <o...@imagico.de> wrote: > > It is my impression that the problem here runs much deeper. It gets > > down to a fundamental dissent about what OSM is in essence - whether it > > is a project for humans to cooperatively assemble their own local > > knowledge or if it is a project with the primary goal to collect > > subjectively useful geodata under a uniform license and in a uniform > > format for the convenience of data users. > > > > ... In most cases people planning imports > > however have other goals that have higher priority for them (most > > often 'getting the data they have into OSM' for the benefit of data > > users) which makes attempts at working towards other goals fairly > > pointless and frustrating. > > I like imports, but for quite another reason: > > As an OpenStreetMap editor, a resident of a largely empty country, and > a human, I am interested in imports as otherwise the map of where I > live will remain full of blank spots for decades. I want to see a map > in the default OpenStreetMap.org layer, not a blank. > > I understand this is not a large motivator for humans in countries > that do not have thousands of square kilometers of wilderness per > possible mapper, let alone active mapper. But some understanding of > our position would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > --Jarek > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > Imports@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports >
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