On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 7:52 AM, john whelan <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is purely local and it does not impact any other parts of Canada. On the contrary, OSM is a worldwide community, and what you do can have an impact on others, other parts of Ontario, other parts of Canada, and other parts of the world. We share information with many other groups. > If you have been involved in creating the existing map and have input > please input it now. I'm under the impression that locally so far > there is not a major community effort going on with map parties etc > which would be disrupted by this action. I've been involved in creating the map... nothing within the confines of greater Ottawa, but if need be, I can edit a road in Ottawa to meet your criteria. You are asking for input from other mappers, and are getting input. If you decide to ignore the input from other mappers, and wholesale wipe out OSM data to clear the way for a bulk import, you'll be setting a very important precedent that WILL have an impact outside of the confines of your editing area. If you delete all the work that has been done up until now, you seriously risk alienating the users that have been busy creating the Ottawa map so far. You also risk causing repercussions throughout the OSM community where people will be leery of investing the time and effort to contribute to the OSM map when some individual may in the future decide that the data is "of dubious quality", and simply bulk delete the data in favour of a bulk import from their favourite source. > The reasoning behind this proposal is the road data sampled so far > seems to be of dubious quality. Can you provide examples? I had a quick look around downtown Ottawa, and it looks to be fairly well mapped. > I suggest that if there is no local objection within 30 days that > implement this. What criteria will you accept as an objection? Have you contacted every one of the people that have worked on creating the Ottawa map? There is no requirement that OSM mappers have to belong to this reflector. Don't toss this out as simply a person trying to be a pain in your backside. I mapped some of Fort McMurray before the import scripts were created. Fort McMurray was actually used as a test bed for the scripts to see how the roadmatcher was working. I actually wanted to delete all of the roads in Fort McMurray to be able to get a nice uniform import. As I was the only person mapping in Fort McMurray, I felt that I would be able to remove my ways without repercussion. You have to remember that once you enter the information into the database, it does not belong to you (the individual), but it becomes your property (as part of the OSM community). You would essentially be destroying data that belongs to the community. I understand what you want to do, and why you want to do it, but the manner in which you do it is the issue. James VE6SRV _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
