-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Op 12-07-10 06:57, Alan Mintz schreef: > At 2010-07-10 14:55, John Smith wrote: >> On 11 July 2010 07:32, Thomas Emge <[email protected]> wrote: >> > ... >> Some like to think there is 2 types of importing, implopping is where >> people blindly upload data without checking what they are importing or >> what already exists, > > ...which is unacceptable in any area or type of data for which there may > be existing data in OSM. A good example was the import of the EPA > superfund data, which was poorly geo-referenced, not discussed with > other users, woefully incomplete (for some unknown reason), and > duplicative of existing data. It was eventually reverted.
So why is this /so/ unacceptable? The renderer decides what to render. If we end up in rendering only a specific subset of data, for example from a list of users that we trust. Then any import is just ignored, until something thinks its good enough to be used. Stefan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEAREKAAYFAkw6pAgACgkQYH1+F2Rqwn01UQCeMvtUUtxmsJ710PLXEMYtkRW1 R8wAoI5Zn3S8ndDsIoVYn7XxBG0DQG2V =ukIX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
