M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist <at> gmail.com> writes: > 2011/3/31 Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org>: >> Having said that, there's the important issue of human contributors >> adding value to the imports: adding metadata, removing stale data, >> improving geometry. Those are real human contributions that would >> not have occurred if it weren't for the import happening first.
> +1 > And with the time, the original imports will more and more (given an > active community) fade towards cloudbased human mapping. > I also don't share the fear that there will on the long run a growing > amount of imports but rather guess that imports will become less, > because it becomes always more complicated to import stuff, when half > of it is already present in OSM, while it was easy to import into an > empty map. Data which are significantly enhanced by the users (I know, it is hard to define what is significant) would be valuable for me as well. Basically I do not care about rendering but I have an interest in plain data. I am after interoperability without a need to import everything into OSM first. I would like to do spatial queries from the database and through web services and see what features and what tags OSM users have recorded around a given place and do comparisons with data from other data sources. But I fear no single tag nor a simple tag combination can ever be used for finding the real user contributed data and I will need to preprocess OSM data somehow. -Jukka Rahkonen- _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
