Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > Dave F. wrote: >> I find it very disappointing you feel there is a them & us situation. > > Yes, very disappointing but not every human being on earth happens to > have an OSM account. We're working on it. > Sorry Fredrik, but you /were/ talking about people already within OSM: "Coming from the outside and not having the knowledge about OSM that we have" >> Isn't that just putting an artificial middle man into the equation? > > The cool thing about this is that users can control what kind of > middle man they want. > >> Wouldn't it be better to have an organised, original data? > > Not in my eyes. If users come to us and say: "Hey, we'd like to have > only 6 road categories not 18" then, instead of removing information > in our database to be compliant, we simply give them a set of rules > for their artificial middle man that gives them 6 road categories, and > we don't even have to change all our editors and re-educate all our > mappers. Best of both worlds, innit? So what you have is an XSLT files that does the work that the likes of flickr would do & you sell them the service. Which is fine, but you still have to work of sorting it out. What I've been trying to say (& seemingly not doing a very good job of it) is that if there was certain standardisation that work load would be reduced.
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