On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Russ Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ian Dees writes: > > Frederik's point is that you should only map things that other mappers > can > > verify or improve on. Since you can't verify borders and boundaries or > > otherwise make them any better than the government data after they're > > imported, they don't belong in OSM. > > Anybody can verify that the data is accurate by checking it against > the original. Next objection? > The moment it makes its way in to OSM it becomes incorrect. There is *absolutely* no way to improve the data once it's in OSM, so it should not be in OSM. Period. > No, seriously, I *do* use the governmental data that Frederick and > apparently Ian is objecting to, and I use it by loading it out of > OSM. Excellent. Feel free to convert the data into whatever format you desire and use it locally. But it doesn't belong in OSM.
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