Hi, On 10/13/17 15:52, Kevin Kenny wrote: > (I ignore the arguments that > are based solely on contentions that "imports are always bad for the > community," or else I'd never import anything.)
I only posted that on the talk list and not here, so for those on talk-us who don't read talk and who are familiar with the "imports are always bad for the community" discussion, you might want to have a look at a scientific paper recently written by Abhishek Nagaraj (UC Berkeley-Haas) which finds that: "... a higher level of information seeding significantly lowered follow-on knowledge production and contributor activity on OpenStreetMap and was also associated with lower levels of long-term quality." The paper can be freely downloaded here https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3044581 and there has been a little discussion about it over on the talk list, here: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2017-October/079116.html Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
