On 06.06.2012 14:38, Pieren: > On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Frederik Ramm >> Assess the impact that your import will have on the community. > > But you can say the same for manual editions too. What is the impact > of adding indoor mapping, rooms, floors, private footpaths, 3D roofs > and textures, tons of lane tags making data interpretation almost > impossible for newcomers ?
We have traditionally held imports to a higher standard than manual editing in this regard, and for good reason: A mapper with unusual mapping practices may be a problem for his or her immediate surroundings, but an import can do damage on a much larger scale, possibly delaying the formation of communities in entire countries. And obviously, there has to be at least a minimum amount of mappers in the area for them to create all that potentially controversial data manually. So there is a chance that if there are enough mappers to create it, there should also be enough of them to maintain it. This is not at all true for imports: They can add much more data to an area than a local community is able to handle, and automatically updating imports once the data is in OSM has never worked in my experience. So I agree with Frederik that we should evaluate imports for their impact on the community. I also feel that "make available instead of import" is a good way to ensure that a) there is a local community to maintain the data and b) that local community is fine with the import. Tobias _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
