Re: [Talk-us] Imports information on the wiki

2012-01-03 Thread Mike N
On 1/2/2012 6:50 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: I think Martijn's focus on cleaning up the imports, especially in the US, should be welcome and encouraged. I've reviewed some of the original threads in the mailing list archives, and it seems that only 1 person seriously objected at first, but

Re: [Talk-us] Call For Bids to host State Of The Map US 2012

2012-01-03 Thread Martijn van Exel
Let me try that again. Call for bids to host the second State Of The Map US Conference === The OpenStreetMap US Chapter is currently soliciting bids for hosting and organizing the State Of The Map US 2012 conference (SOTMUS12), to be held in the second

Re: [Talk-us] Imports information on the wiki

2012-01-03 Thread Martijn van Exel
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: Continued from tagging... On 1/2/2012 11:40 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: What makes you think that the current common opinion is against automatic expansion?  Mostly because of customary resistance to automatic imports, which is

Re: [Talk-us] Imports information on the wiki

2012-01-03 Thread the Old Topo Depot
Good point. Fixing it now is not a permanent solution. We will have to keep monitoring. Which brings me to the question of responsibility: to what extent do we - as the OSM US community - want or need to keep the data consistent by running monitoring bots? I believe that a certain degree of