On 07/06/11 13:34, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
If you go out and find the exact position of a service, with a piece of
paper and a pen (or a GPS or whatever), that's your data, not theirs. So of
course it's compatible.
I think you miss my point. The datasets contain more than just their
postal address. If the licenses are compatible, we can mash up the data.
And you should do that anyway.
This implies I don't already, which is a false. (Otherwise, why are you
telling me I should?)
OSM is meant to be a crowd-sourced,
This is a meaningless statement in my way of thinking. Even if it was
meant to be something, by some one, at some stage proves nothing. Just
because it has been crowd sourced to some extent doesn't preclude other
approaches. Some types of data are in OSM that are almost impossible to
survey with our crowd sourcing resources. UK streams, for example,
mostly were not crowd sourced (in terms of surveying).
constantly updated representation of what's on the ground, not some cheapass
mirror of any dataset that Government happens to have lying around.
Any what if the government dataset is open and stomps on OSM's attempt?
(Don't bother saying "improve OSM" because that IS the approach we use
and still the government set is better, in some cases.) Duplicating
other open data sets seems a waste of time - as you seem to imply by
resurveying stuff already available elsewhere. I am not advocating we
only import data either. A hybrid approach - import AND crowd source -
is better. If you want crowd sourced surveying only, I suggest you start
another project.
Regards,
TimSC
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