On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Russ Nelson <r...@cloudmade.com> wrote: > > On Mar 16, 2009, at 12:57 PM, Ted Mielczarek wrote: >> If you can't edit it it shouldn't be in the OSM db. It's easy enough >> to set up your own map render with any external data you want. > > Bzzzr, wrong. There is substantial value to renderers to only have to > work off one API for map data. If the data is in OSM, then > immediately every map renderer has access to it. If, say, someone > finds a new data source but declines to dd it to OSM, then EVERY > RENDERER needs to add support for that file format and metadata in > order to use it.
Umm, no. You're wrong on this case, and I speak from running one of the main OSM renderers. Ted is correct. > Sorry, Ted, but you're being driven by ideology here, not by good > programming practise. Ideology is for ideots. No he's not, and plenty of other people are in agreement here. It's a question of the point of having a community in OSM (vs a large collection of uneditable datasets), and you're arguing about technical stuff. Technical comes second, community first. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk