Hi, On 10/20/10 16:16, Gregory Arenius wrote:
There isn't a day gone past where the vast gaps in the OSM dataset, the missing address nodes, missing turn restrictions, missing building outlines, missing subdivisions, missing everything and whatnot don't hugely degrade the usefulness of the project.
OSM is not a data dumping ground, OSM is a community project. Importing all these things without a community to support them is worth less than nothing, it hurts the project rather than helping it.
If you have a shape file with building outlines, configure your Mapnik instance to render the buildings from that.
(Having said that, I would really like to see your suggestion for a shape file import that adds turn restrictions.)
There is a huge amount of data out there that is under an acceptable license to import into OSM that would be a great asset to the project.
No, no, and no again. OSM is not a pool to collect the free geodata of the world. Because you are right - there is an *awful* lot of geodata available and we do _not_ want to burden our infrastructure with dead stuff that nobody cares about.
You can say "just go collect it manually" but if we know the data is already there we're not going to put in years of work duplicating it just to appease this anti-import mindset that some on this list have.
Let's say it is a pro-community mindset. Prove that there's the manpower and the interest to maintain the imported data and you might have a point.
Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
