2010/8/10 Jaak Laineste <jaak.laine...@gmail.com>: >> I like this test because it will make things easy. No fuzzy shades of grey >> like >> some Richard is suggesting. Can you give an example of a thing that is done >> by a >> human being and that is not art by this definition? > > Humans create many non-art things. For example databases it > human-created items. Database of phone numbers of a telco operator, > financial accounting database, state registry of roads.
+1 all of them should look exactly the same also if done by several (well coordinated) people that work in collaboration. If they instead trace a lake, river or forest from aerial imagery or from gpx-traces you will get similar looking but completely different drawings (number and position of individual nodes) by different people. > If two persons > are creating the same database, then only reason why there can be > differences is that there there is clear mistake in one of them, > without any doubt. valid for your examples and as long as it is only about "facts" and not about interpretation or generalisation. Cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
