On 2012-04-15, at 11:09 AM, Richard Weait <rich...@weait.com> wrote: > Let's talk about it again. How do we feel about the bulk copying of > information from a permitted source into OpenStreetMap in Canada? > > To be clear, I'm not suggesting that we discuss whether external data > sources are good or not. External data sources are good. I'm > suggesting that we review how we best make use of those external > sources. > Generally, I don't see why we shouldn't avail ourselves of such information. As Stewart pointed put, we're a huge sparsely-populated country. However, there needs to be a system to help avoid conflicting with similar/identical data being collected by local mappers.
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