Kate Chapman writes: > Possibly, but we cite as fact that imports stunt community growth. I don't > think that has ever been proven in a way that cuts across cultures, > geographies or the quality of the data being imported. People usually point > to the TIGER import in the US. I don't think we can purely blame an import, > there is much more going on than simply there was data already there.
Agreed. The TIGER import is not necessarily the reason for a community growing only slowly. Pit against that the public domain USGS maps (unlike, say, the OS Landranger maps), the very public-domain TIGER data that we imported, or the various mapping services like Google Maps. In order for the "armchair as import" idea to hold water, it must first be shown that armchair maps are even positively correlated with a failure for a community to arise. This whole discussion started with Frederick Ramm's speculation that remote mapping is bad. I haven't seen any evidence that it is bad. -- --my blog is at http://blog.russnelson.com Crynwr supports open source software 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815 Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
