Worst Fixer <worstfi...@gmail.com> wrote: >It means that we must revert things like TIGER and CanVec. Am I right?
I think fundamentally you are right with this point. My impression is that many people at OSM regret these imports - in fact the longer they are involved in the project. The problem is that today you cannot isolate them from the other edits because the users improved the tags and dragged the objects to the correct position instead of making them new. "Reverting" is simply not possible any more. The only way to remove the imports was to clear the maps completely. But this would produce another community impact of course. I think I was one of the early refusers of big imports that can be derived from the reality by users as well. (This is impossible for non-physical objects like borders.) I imagine Wikipedia would have been imported so far and the user were damned to correct it and only add bits and bobs. I am pretty sure it never ever would have had that success it had. IMHO the community impact of imports should be described in extenso before any technical stuff is mentioned. And yes - it should be mentioned that TIGER and its friends were early mistakes of OSM. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
