On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:49 PM, David Lynch <djly...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:36, Russ Nelson <r...@cloudmade.com> wrote: >> No one has been able to refute my claim that if someone would enter it >> by hand, it belongs in OSM regardless of its source. And if it comes >> from surveyed data, then it makes no sense to edit its position. >> Metadata, perhaps.
It may make no sense now, but it may be in 10 years when the data will be changed, and the official source may or may not be available for updates > That's because we don't have a problem with data coming from > government sources that we could go out and collect ourselves. I don't > think most in the group disagree with the assertion that it's more > accurate than anything that we're likely to collect. We do have a > problem with the insistence that it can never be changed. (Even if > there's no need to change it.) exactly my position -- Elena ``of Valhalla'' homepage: http://www.trueelena.org email: elena.valha...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
