Re: [Imports] Value of imports in general (was: Import of addresses in Poland)

2014-02-06 Thread Johan C
Dear Frederik, I find myself having some difficulty to understand the way you are addressing imports. There seem to be two camps now. And, while the Dutch import tries to get as many local people as possible involved (7 at the moment, and that's still just the number of beta testers), you refer to

Re: [Imports] Value of imports in general (was: Import of addresses in Poland)

2014-02-06 Thread Jo
I'm a long time contributor to OSM and the way I understood it the goal was to get more and more detailed information as we go along. So me and other contributors have been asking local government and PT companies to release their data. Now that the data is becoming available, it would be strange

Re: [Imports] Value of imports in general (was: Import of addresses in Poland)

2014-02-06 Thread Pieren
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Frederik Ramm 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 opinio

Re: [Imports] Value of imports in general (was: Import of addresses in Poland)

2014-02-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
Pieren, I'm replying to you here and to those who without further comment "+1"ed your message. I know that your background is the French cadastre import but I'm trying to remain generic. > The question is more to know if address data is something valuable for > OSM or not. OSM is about commu