It seems like the best solution combines the tools that Ian is looking for with the community that Frederik is talking about.
* Lets interested members of the community find, link to and discuss datasets that could be added to OSM * Lets people who live in, map in or otherwise care about the area impacted by an import to join the discussion, whether they are for or against the import. * Lets data owners contribute their datasets to OSM and includes resources about licensing terms * Lets all of the people involved with or affected by the import track the progress of the import - making the import transparent * Includes some of the tools that Ian was talking about above A toolset like this would let a community grow around the import process - letting OSM get the good data that's out there whilst making sure there's a community there to maintain it. -- Nick On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > Ian, > > Ian Dees wrote: >> >> I got the impression after SotM US that there was a huge interest in doing >> imports correctly. For me, correctly means the following: > > 0. Discuss with community (don't import if no community exists) > >> 1. Get permission > > 1a. Discuss with community (don't import if no community exists) > >> 2. Convert to OSM format > > 2a. Discuss with community (don't import if no community exists) > >> 3. Compare to existing data > > 3a. Work with community (make tools that let LOCAL community do this > comparison) > >> 4. Upload to the data > > no: > > 4. provide tools/mechanism to let community upload the data in their area of > interest. If no community exists, do no upload data. > > I think that far too much weight is put on the technical side here. In a > place with a thriving community, it may not take more than a WMS server to > get the "import" going. In a place without a thriving community, NOBODY > NEEDS A (third party) IMPORT - the import will only make it harder for a > community to form. > > Bye > Frederik > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > -- -- Nick Black twitter.com/nick_b _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
