Hi, +1 to all points in this message, especially
On 07/30/2014 09:33 PM, SomeoneElse wrote: > if you're uploading 1776 pages of data to > a shared database that refers to a remote town in another country, to > actually talk to people locally first > The second is that this is open data. There's no immediate reason just > to dump it into OSM just _because_ it's open data The question "why revert just because of etiquette" has been raised but I think it is very much in order to revert "just" because of a violation of the rules. More and more I see people in OSM arguing for silly things because other equally silly things are done elsewhere in OSM - "if *they* are allowed to import stuff without consultation then *I* bust be too". We don't have many rules but we should work towards a culture where the few rules that we have are known and followed, rather than turning a blind eye to those who violate them. (And I don't know what's worse - wantonly violating a rule that you know about, or believing you would help OSM by importing a ton of streetlights in another country without talking to anybody *or* reading up on imports in the Wiki *or* reading the imports list.) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
