On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > Jaak Laineste wrote: >> Is there a way to make maintenance >> of only their specific data in OSM easy? > > I think we're having different pictures here. OSM is not a platform > which you can use to host "your" data. The data ceases to become "yours" > once it is in OSM. If that fundamental idea doesn't get across, then > further discourse is fruitless. > > If they are willing to accept the paradigm shift and say: We used to be > the keeper of the official list of museums, but now we see ourselves as > a guardian of community museum data in OSM - checking it, refining it, > and making sure it doesn't get damaged - then there might be common > ground.
If only there were some model for these museum enthusiasts to follow. Some model of interested parties curating information for the good of the community. Perhaps refining the information and presenting it in ways that attract the attention of the general public. Or perhaps carving away some layers of the information to show some interesting underlying structure that would not be immediately apparent to a non-expert. Oh! That model could be a museum curator! Except in OpenStreetMap, the curators neither lock the doors nor place the exhibits behind glass boxes and velvet ropes. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
