Tom looks like I misread Fred a little, apologies. Steve
> On Oct 14, 2015, at 9:28 AM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > > Martin, > > On 10/14/2015 11:18 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> frankly, if there was a halfway usable repository of open >> addresses that could be merged with OSM for those who want it, and if >> open addresses become available for regions where OSM already has >> addresses, I'd not be opposed to dropping the addresses from OSM in >> those regions. >> >> Really? I've always thought our user's ground truth would be trumping >> data we'd import, i.e. we'd request from importers not to drop features >> that are already there, but to conflate in the opposite way, drop from >> the external data set the stuff that we already have, before importing >> the rest. Did I read you right? Can you explain why you changed your mind? > > You read me right and Michal did too. > > Yes, I always said that we would want to be able to import Open Data at > the processing stage (i.e. into Nominatim etc.) instead of importing it > into OSM, so Michal is right. > > This of course has the drawback that you can't edit the government data > sets, and this is why Tom Lee would prefer to import the government data > sets into OSM to make them accessible for editing. > > To which I replied that I would prefer to have this data in a non-OSM > editable repository, rather than in OSM, because I feel that there is a > disparity between the amount of address data and the number of mappers > actually interested; I would prefer if those who want a crowd-sourced > address data set would not burden OSM with that. Tom wrote that there's > not enough manpower in openaddresses to actually edit the data, and I > cautioned him against assuming that the OSM manpower would automatically > be available for editing addresses. > > Now if there *was* a crowd-sourced address collection project, then I > would not object to OSM deferring to that for addresses. If, say region > X made their address data openly available, it would be possible to > conflate that with the (supposedly better) stuff we already have in OSM, > add the result to the crowd-sourced address collection project, and drop > it from OSM. If the alternatives are to either add the gov't data to OSM > or move existing OSM address data into a separate project, I'd clearly > prefer the latter, although I recognize that there might be people who > would like to keep "their" address data in OSM. It is something that > would have to be discussed. > > It might be possible to piggyback the crowd-sourced address collection > project onto OSM but I would really think that if crowd-sourced address > collection is not viable as a project in its own right (because of lack > of people willing to give away their spare time to improve it), then it > will not be viable in OSM either - only that the situation would be less > obvious. > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > legal-talk mailing list > legal-talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
