All The foundation today discussed the perceived need for a working group to help people import data.
We know there are highly talented individuals out there who are able to find data to import, have the social skills and time to get data holders to release it to OSM, have the legal knowledge to see if it's ok to import and have the technical skills to do the actual importing. They are doing amazing work. However there are those that can do only a portion of this. Thus we would like to help the people finding the data meet the people who can import it, and them feel they have backing. We are not looking to stomp on existing imports. We wish to help with the large number of datasets out there without a champion who has all the skills needed to get it imported. There is a lot of data out there! We will prioritise it and help get it imported. So, are you someone who knows about some datasets? Are you able to do the importing? Do you have a little time each week to help guide the process and talk to people who might have data? Then please get in touch to help start this group. We will meet approximately every week or two for an hour long phone call. Best Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
