Re: [Talk-ca] Ongoing Canadian building import needs to be stopped, possibly reverted

2019-01-17 Thread Alan Richards
Along the lines of what Jarek said, sometimes silence just means tacit acceptance, or that it's not that controversial. There's quite a bit of government data here that is supposedly "open" but unavailable for OSM, so I'm very glad Stats Can was able to find a way to collect municipal data and

Re: [Talk-ca] Ongoing Canadian building import needs to be stopped, possibly reverted

2019-01-17 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 at 21:46, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote: > Thanks, Jarek. Considering I am a proponent of "perfection must not be the > enemy of good" (regarding OSM data entry), I think data which are "darn good, > though not perfect" DO deserve to enter into OSM. Sometimes "darn good" >

Re: [Talk-ca] Ongoing Canadian building import needs to be stopped, possibly reverted

2019-01-17 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
On Jan 17, 2019, at 6:27 PM, Jarek Piórkowski wrote: > When no one is responding, sometimes it is because they are fine with > the message as-is. I read it. I was fine with it. This isn't an > Australian election. I'm not sure about the allusion to Australian elections, so I'll let that pass

Re: [Talk-ca] Ongoing Canadian building import needs to be stopped, possibly reverted

2019-01-17 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 at 21:04, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote: >> The import was discussed on talk-ca and in my opinion there was a consensus >> of opinion it should go ahead. The data comes from the municipalities of >> which there are some 37,000 separate ones in Canada. The idea of a single >>

Re: [Talk-ca] Ongoing Canadian building import needs to be stopped, possibly reverted

2019-01-17 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
The thread link is: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/imports/2019-January/005878.html SteveA ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Ongoing Canadian building import needs to be stopped, possibly reverted

2019-01-17 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
This is redirected (by request of its author) from a thread on the (talk-) imports mailing list at . On Jan 17, 2019, at 4:55 PM, John Whelan wrote: > The import was discussed on talk-ca and in my opinion there was a consensus > of opinion it should go ahead. The data comes from the