On 1 September 2017 at 02:55, Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch> wrote: > Sorry for responding to this late. > > Just because a specific source has been legally "OK"ed doesn't imply > that an import of all the data from a specific source is warranted and > should continue on for all times. The import guidelines are silent on > this, but I would suggest that revisiting and reviewing such undertaking > now and then would really make sense. > > Not only because we've learnt lots of things in the many, I believe 9, > years since the LINZ import started, but further because in those 9 > years the community has likely completely changed, a quick check > indicated that 20 times more people have mapped in NZ than when the > import started. As the complaint at hand nicely illustrates, maybe going > back and checking what the community thinks is appropriate now would be > a good idea, instead of trudging along on a course set by 100 people > many years back.
yep, i was one of those 100 people (actually, there were originally 3 of us...) the process was poor, little involvement of others or request for comment. granted, this number has expended since, but only at a "how do we" not at a "should we" level. -- robin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
