On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:36, Russ Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > No one has been able to refute my claim that if someone would enter it > by hand, it belongs in OSM regardless of its source. And if it comes > from surveyed data, then it makes no sense to edit its position. > Metadata, perhaps. But unless you've been out in the field with a > theolodite, you have no business changing the location of the NYS DEC > Lands position.
That's because we don't have a problem with data coming from government sources that we could go out and collect ourselves. I don't think most in the group disagree with the assertion that it's more accurate than anything that we're likely to collect. We do have a problem with the insistence that it can never be changed. (Even if there's no need to change it.) It's like agreeing to let someone put their translation of a book onto a wiki but only under the condition that nobody changes it. It may be technically flawless, but if you're not going to allow edits, there are read-only ways of putting it out there. -- David J. Lynch [email protected] _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
