On Sun, 2012-04-15 at 11:09 -0400, Richard Weait wrote: > Dear All, > > 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. > > You go first. :-) > > Best regards, > Richard > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
From what I see there are some conflicting arguments here.
1 Building a community of mappers to add features to the map. Ideally
local.
2 Canada is a huge country. I doubt that there are that many people
willing to commit to mapping every nook. I'm sure the amount of No
Trespassing signs itself would prevent it.
3 OSM is promoting itself as a "competitor" to google.
4 I would suspect most mappers are not aware of the license change
coming and the resulting impact.
Given the size of Canada, and the few mappers we have. I my self could
not and probably would not have never walked / driven on every road,
trail, river, lake forest etc without some else doing an import first
which I myself used a base to improve OSM.
I don't see any possible way to have a map without an import to use as
a base.
To counter my own points, Yes, you will find some people who see a
great white spot as a challenge. But looking at the changes made locally
I would think most people would rather tweak an existing road or park.
Andrew
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