2011/2/20 Frank Steggink <stegg...@steggink.org>: >> This is killing OSM. We are not here to provide a free API to government >> geodata that can be obtained trivially elsewhere. OSM is all about "added >> value"; by deleting genuine surveyed data in favour of mindless duplication >> of other, poorer quality datasets, we are _destroying_ value.
+1 > ...Because the scale of the > province and the entire country, it is simply impossible to depend on local > users for contributing to OSM. given the actual user base > Anyways, because there are only a few active users, I decided to join the > Geobase NRN (roads) efforts at one point, and Canvec at the beginning of > this month. It is obvious that a crowd based mapping can not work without an actual "crowd". > Regarding the age of > the data (which can be 30 years old): it is still better than nothing for an > area which is too vast to survey by individuals like you and me. better for what? IMHO for attracting other people to the project it is worse. If I came along a project full of imported old stuff with lots of outdated and wrong features I'd rather turn my back then beeing attracted to correct the mess. On the other hand if you had some good quality but scarse and incomplete data people will understand the method and scope of the project and some might join you in your mapping efforts, so in the end it might work out. Even if you import now up to date and "complete" data, if there is not an active comunity to support and maintain this data its value will shrink every day and it will be outdated soon. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
