Graham Stewart wrote: > This keeps getting raised and I'm not sure how true it is.
If you import data into an area that already has an active community, you likely won't damage the community (though you may piss them off). OTOH, you probably don't _need_ to import data because there's already an active community. If you import data into an area that doesn't already have an active community, the community will spring up more slowly or not at all. Example: USA. Even when a community does eventually coalesce, it will be dysfunctional because it hasn't gone through the collective learning experience. This is why, I think, the USA is still having really basic problems like "which roads are trunk and which are primary?" and "how do we write refs?". We sorted that out in the UK ages ago, because as we all went out there and mapped, we learned from each others' experiences. (I remember, for example, the time we used to tag NCN refs as ncn_ref=NR42 or somesuch.) If you want an example closer to home, I'd suggest the South-West Midlands, where Droitwich has been done almost entirely from OSSV, yet continues to languish bereft both of mappers and rich detail. Worcester was growing nicely until the OSSV fairies arrived: there's still a little activity, but the rich map is no longer growing at the rate it was. Yet as soon as you reach the nearby Birmingham conurbation, you have a much richer, actively maintained, more useful map. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/OSM-Analysis-New-Data-and-bot-tp6455312p6458519.html Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb