So you decided that the Imports mailing list isn't useful and is too
20th Century for you.
Don't you see how arrogant and disconnected you sound?
An hour a week was spent in the provider's office, but not once was the
process required by OSM to do imports mentioned?
It may have been done by WM team, but clearly at least two directors of
OSMUK support this flawed process.
I repeat: What a Mess.
Chris.
P.S. telling me not to worry is horribly patronising Rob, please don't
do it.
On 19/03/2017 15:04, Rob Nickerson wrote:
Hi Chris,
I don't think any of us are members of the import mailing list and I
don't see the point of joining any more mailing lists. They represent
an arcane 20th century solution that allows a few negative comments to
derail a locally supported project.
Mailing list posts drift off topic way too easily any it's never clear
when "consensus" is found. Richard F did the right thing in 2013 when
he quit them and I encourage others to do the same
Few people replied to Brian's messages on the local list as we had
already discussed and agreed it. Thus for every negative email there
are usually many people who support it but just don't post.
Far from a bad import i think this is a great example to hold up as a
good case study. Who else would spend an hour a week in the data
providers office discussing not just the current data but
methodologies for keeping it up to date.
The new and old data is being consolidated as Brian mentioned in his
post yesterday. Everything is in hand, so no need to worry.
We are making huge strives forwards in the West Midlands and I'm
looking forward to Open Data becoming the norm as a result of Brian's
hard work.
Rob
P.s. this is being done by the local community not OSM UK which is
still working up it's first project. As a fellow Director however I
fully support Brian. I'm glad we have set up OSM UK and I hope it can
get involved in similar projects where it is provided the devolved
powers it needs to cater for it's community rather than leaving those
decisions to an unclear "central power" that goes round in circles
effectively preventing any new ideas seeing the light of day.
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