Apparently my last reply was rejected from the Moderation police - and
it was probably a good thing...
Low wage? Low Skilled? Do as little as possible? That's not a good
description of public domain data or how that data came into existence.
There's a lot of good data collected by skilled people in the mapping
industry that is public domain. You really need to re-think that
description or provide some citation proving that assertion.
Randy
Randal Hale, GISP
North River Geographic Systems, Inc
http://www.northrivergeographic.com
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On 12/31/2012 1:34 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Jeff Meyer <[email protected]> wrote:
Why does "imports" mean "not crowdsourced," if the crowd determines which
imports are source-able?
Crowdsourced means that we survey the data indivdually.
Why doesn't public-domain data that the crowd has funded count as
crowdsourced?
Because the folks collecting that data aren't part of our community;
they're often low wage, low skilled workers looking to do as little as
they can. That doesn't mean the data is all bad, but it's not from our
community.
That doesn't mean all imports are bad; in fact, I think some imports
can be good, but there is a distinction to be made.
- Serge
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