On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Ben Welsh <[email protected]> wrote: > Long story short: I'm curious whether our boundaries might have a home in > the OSM database. I don't know a ton about the project, but I've always
IMHO they might be useful, on the basis that they're not just any old informal boundaries, they have the credibility of a major newspaper behind them. On the other hand, if they really do just change arbitrarily, that's less valuable. OSM does need to think more carefully about what exactly is in and out of scope. Some people want everything if it's verifiable. Others want to draw limits. The exact same debate goes on constantly at Wikipedia, but is much more sophisticated. At the very least, the names would be useful in nominatim or whatever, to help find stuff. Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
