Hi, I fully agree that imports should be done very selective to avoid a "giant data rubbish dump". However, currently it is very difficult for a user to decide "if the data is so important [..] for the foundation [..] that we'd rather have and outdated version of it in OSM than nothing at all".
I think it would be good to establish some principles that give guidance to the user if the data are of interest for the community e.g. "(a) the location should be of public interest either by being publicly accessible or by being of historic relevance, (b) individuals should not be added to the data base" Another helpful feature could be an "expiry date". Each import can not be valid longer than e.g. 12 months. After this period the dataset needs update and receives a new validity data. Otherwise the data will become inactive. Regards, Oliver -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Re-OSM-legal-talk-Are-we-strict-enough-with-imports-tp4554380p4560488.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
