On Jun 21, 2009, at 6:49 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > > Frederik Ramm wrote: >> However, we'll have more and more imports like boundaries, seamarks >> and so on, which I like to consider "mutable for people who know >> exactly what they're doing". > > Is this actually a real-world problem right now, or something we > think might > possibly one day become one?
Legal boundaries *aren't* a real-world problem right now? We need to have them in OSM otherwise people will start adding them. And yet, if the data came from an import from the governmental body responsible for maintaining the legal description, what justification could anybody have for changing them (pace anarchists, but even anarchists will recognize land registries as long as they're voluntary). -- Russ Nelson - http://community.cloudmade.com/blog - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson r...@cloudmade.com - Twitter: Russ_OSM - http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
