Hi, On 06/06/2012 02:59 PM, Tobias Knerr wrote:
So I agree with Frederik that we should evaluate imports for their impact on the community. I also feel that "make available instead of import" is a good way to ensure that a) there is a local community to maintain the data and b) that local community is fine with the import.
A note of caution though; in France, the approach "make available instead if import" has been tried for buildings as far as I know, and it has lead to a very small number of people taking the data that was "made available" and importing it all over the place, with essentially the same results as a standard "empty the bucket" import - lots of buildings in places where no mappers are.
So, even if the person who procures the data and makes it available for the community to import does everything right, there's still the potential for community members to fuck it up ;)
Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
