Hi Frederik, Thank you for reviewing it. Honestly, I am very encouraged that these two items are the only issues you had. I expected you to be a tough critic :-)
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 07.11.2013 02:31, Jason Remillard wrote: >> I just made the changes. >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines >> Let me know what you think... > > The page now opens with > > "If you think your city/county/state/country government, a non-profit, > or some other organization or person has great data that could be used > to improve the quality of OpenStreetMap, you've come to the right place!" This was in the text before, I moved it to the top. The first sentence should say what the page is about. Rather than killing, perhaps you can have a crack at rewrite it. > > I certainly feel that, as an *opening* sentence, this is too welcoming. > It almost sounds as if we are soliciting imports which we certainly > aren't. This part of your edit certainly doesn't have my agreement. > > Neither does the fact that you have, also silently as far as I can see, > dropped the paragraph > > "OpenStreetMap is all about building a great map by attracting a large > community of mappers. While data imports can help with improving > coverage rapidly, > [http://www.asklater.com/matt/wordpress/2009/09/imports-and-the-community/ > simulations] suggest that imported data can cause problems with the > growth of a community. It's actually far more important to go out and > run lots of [[mapping parties]], get lots of publicity out there, and > get local people on the ground." This has nothing to do with the import policy. The document already mentions several times that there are/were problems, and that some areas will not allow them, etc. At least in the US, I don't think this paragraph fits our current attitude on imports. This is a separate conversation. Put it back in, and we can argue about it later. Thanks Jason. _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
