On Mar 10, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Dirk-Lüder Kreie wrote: > > I propose a social solution instead of a technical one. > > i.e. "please don't change, because..." instead of > "you cannot change this, period".
I've not proposed a technical solution. The question here is: should there be data in OSM which it doesn't make sense for anyone to change? It's a question of how you interpret the data. If it's "This is what NYS DEC says it manages", then no, it doesn't make ANY sense to change it. If the data is "These are NYS's State Forests", then there's plenty of reason to change them. Perhaps there's a typo, or some piece of data which simply doesn't make sense. Data is produced by people, and can have mistakes it. I'm tending towards doing the import, track the edits made to it, and report back here on exactly how the data gets changed. I think we need more information. I'll do the import under a special-purpose userid, so we can withdraw the import if necessary. -- Russ Nelson - http://community.cloudmade.com/blog - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson [email protected] - http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
