On Wednesday 06 November 2013, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > IMHO imports should only be done by longterm / experienced mappers, > because otherwise you get what we already have gotten from many > imports ;-)
But even if that was the intent making the instructions difficult to understand is not a reliable way to discurage inexperienced people due to Dunning-Kruger effect. And despite bad imports happening i think there are many scenarios in which a complete newcomer could successfully do a valuable import (admittingly not every newcomer and not every kind of import of course) - with sufficient willingness to learn and sufficiently clear instructions for him/her to actually see what needs to be learned. Without understandable instructions imports are essentially a hen-and-egg problem - you need experience to do an import and you can only acquire this experience by doing imports... -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
