Agreed. I have some concern about importing of GIS data which overwrites existing data.
Though on the other hand that can happen right now. I think just making sure there is education about what OSM is and is not is important. -Kate user:wonderchook On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Emilie Laffray <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 6 July 2010 15:01, Lennard <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 6-7-2010 15:30, Reiser, John J. wrote: >> >>> Hopefully this will encourage imports, or at least help familiarize >>> mainstream GIS users with OSM.I have downloaded the tools and will be >>> experimenting with them to see how they work. >> >> Imports should be done with care and attention and reflection. Not as >> 'open this county GIS file, hit upload'. > > Absolutely. Doing a proper import takes a lot of time and effort. > > Emilie Laffray > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > > _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
