On 26.11.2012 14:06, Joseph Reeves wrote: > Playing Devil's Advocate, "crowdsourced" isn't appropriate for large > swathes of OSM data: Europe, for example, is dominated by imported, not > crowdsourced, CORINE data.
I don't believe that Europe is "dominated" by CORINE data. Several European countries never imported CORINE, and elsewhere most of the work would still consist of roads and other non-landuse data. Also consider that imports today almost necessarily have to be performed with manual interaction (to avoid duplicates and so on) and by various individuals. So even when imports take place, they are done in a "crowdsourced" manner. So I think "crowdsourced" is the most appropriate term that is still meaningful. > I'd describe OSM data simply as "open". That's not wrong either, but not precise enough to distinguish a project such as OSM from e.g. governments' Open Data efforts. That's because it overlaps with open licensing, which I assume will be stored separately in metadata, and various other associations of the term. Tobias _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
