I think imports are important. - The 'dead data' point have been covered from TimSC, imho - The 'it discourage new editors' point... I strongly disagree, in fact more user OSM has, more potential editor it has. Who wants to use a map that is way worst (because is lacking data) than GoogleMaps, OVIMaps, Gamin's maps etc? I think no one, or a very little amount....
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Grant Slater <openstreet...@firefishy.com> wrote: > On 29 September 2010 11:26, Nic Roets <nro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Obviously there are many exceptions to your rule, like the TIGER import. >> > > TIGER isn't a good example of a successful import. > > The TIGER import killed a fledgling community in the US, which is now > only slowly recovering. TIGER has masses of data without anyone taking > any ownership. Do we really need inaccurate, incorrectly tagged data > for a dirt track crossing the Rockies? > > Nic, local example... Durban South Africa, we imported a dataset, the > few new mappers who were starting up these stopped mapping and haven't > returned post import. The import data is now stagnating. The imported > data also has many errors. > > Yes, the ODbL + CT may raise the bar on imports by making sure the > supplied data is on _OUR_ terms. I think this is a good thing. > > Regards > Grant > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Fabio Alessandro Locati Home: Segrate, Milan, Italy (GMT +1) Phone: +39-328-3799681 MSN/Jabber/E-Mail: fabioloc...@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: 5525 8555 213C 19EB 25F2 A047 2AD2 BE67 0F01 CA61 Involved in: KDE, OpenStreetMap, Ubuntu, Wikimedia _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
