Bonjour, I know that I'm not totally unbiased !-) but as it is an important question, I'll add my two cents as OSM contributor...
Bulk import - Canvec for instance - is helpful to fill white areas on OSM map. Not doing twice what is already available and focus on updating, or adding features, that are not available from other sources. Using it as a canvas to add upon. I have fun updating hydrography, vegetation, parks, roads and land uses in Sherbrooke, Sept-Îles and Rimouski. I would not have done the map from scratch. Best regards, Daniel -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Allison [mailto:andrew.alli...@teksavvy.com] Sent: April-15-12 12:19 To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Canadian imports: good or bad? 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 _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
