On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Instead of importing data, data should be mixed in at the rendering stage.
It really depends on the data. If the data can be imported in a form which is already commonly used for non-imported data, I'd say it should be imported (carefully, which often means manually). > Importing data is, in my eyes, almost never acceptable if the original > source is still maintaining the data (because keeping stuff in sync is > practically impossible and it is better to simply not have that data in OSM > and rely on the original source exclusively), or if imported data cannot be > maintained by mappers (either because there are none, or because the data is > not visible on the ground). I'd say the latter matters, but the former doesn't. Of course, if keeping stuff in sync is practically impossible, a good import is probably going to have to be manual (if you can't keep stuff in sync, and the data is in a form which is already commonly used for non-imported data, then you can't avoid redundancies in the import). _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
