Well if you are willing to wait a week or two, I might be able to shed some light on the issue.
I decided to take a cartography course this semester. One of our projects is to create a thematic map of our choosing and I was hoping to make one related to OSM. I just started playing with osmosis last night to get a planet import working so I could do some analysis of bots/imports vs manual edits. Not having looked at the data yet I'm not sure how to go about detecting whether a given object was imported or added by hand. Hopefully over the next week I will get a chance to look at things a little. If I come up with anything interesting I will be sure to share it here :) Toby On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Kai Krueger wrote: >> >> Yes, more or less. Given that some people seem to be strongly arguing that >> the use of third party data is "crap", "mindless" and "harmful", > > ... among them myself, as you probably have noticed ... > >> I would like to get a feel for how "bad" the situation is and where there >> are still "happy, undisturbed" communities left > > Well there will certainly be lots of places with NO imports and also NO > community but I don't think that would disprove the theory ;) > > Why not do it the other way round - identify places with a vibrant OSM > community, then see if they've had any major imports. I might be stating the > obvious but OSM community is certainly vibrant in most places in Germany, > and imports have certainly played a negligible role in the data we have. > > Bye > Frederik > > PS: I don't think the US is going to be a wasteland in terms of OSM > community forever. I just think that without the TIGER import they'd have > less data but much more community today. Then again I'm happy to admit that > at the time the import was done, I thought it was a splendid idea, along > with most others in the project probably - so it would be totally unfair to > blame anyone who worked hard on getting that import done. > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
