Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia POI import?

[Chris Hill]

Russ Nelson wrote: On May 6, 2009, at 2:03 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Russ Nelson wrote: What work or creativity did Google do towards the existence of that particular point? Google's imagery suppliers collected and rectified the imagery. "For over a hundred years, English courts have held that a significant expenditure of labour is sufficient" - that's, er, Wikipedia saying that. If they'd rectified them differently, your 14 digits would be different. True, but now you're putting yourself into the ridiculous situation of claiming that every possible set of coordinates infringes Google's copyright. "Openstreetmap is about gathering map data and sharing it. Some people seem desperate to import data from anywhere. GATHER IT YOURSELF." The problem is that people say "Why should I have to repeat this work? It's already been done. Why can't we just import it?" I wrote the tweet Richard posted.  The problem is that much of the data that is imported is poor quality.  If we import data from other sources, the best we can ever be is a me-too map no better than the data we import.  I don't want to create an also-ran map that happens to be free to use, I want to create a best-ever map and by-the -way it's free, and I can't do that by just copying someone else's stuff.  At the weekend I heard from  someone visiting Yorkshire who now lives in Arizona.  He thinks OSM is poor because the TIGER import is incomplete and off by about 100 yards.  I tried to persuade him to help, and he can best do that by gathering data. There are good imports of course and some imported data can be better than nothing, but just importing every thing and anything is not going to build that earth-moving map. So lets get back to creating the very best map of the world, part of which involves GATHERING DATA. Cheers, Chris

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