Matt Amos <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]> wrote: >> 3) The road to hell in OSM is paved with bot intentions. >> >> OSM has a long, negative history with bots. We have a very small >> number of good imports, and dozens (if not more) bad imports. Bad >> imports are so commonplace in OSM that within the OSM community, bots >> of any sort are discouraged, but especially any imports, and >> especially (as you appear to be proposing), merging existing data with >> imported data. > > +1 > > bots and imports are also fantastic ways of washing away community > consensus for the ideas of a single person.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_relations http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_Numbered_Highway_Relations http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Michigan/Highway_Relations Maybe I'm unclear what you mean by "consensus"? Those look pretty agree-upon to me. -- Peter Budny \ Georgia Tech \ CS PhD student \ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
