Have you considered that the goal of OSM is creating a free (as speach) map of the whole world... I think your view is not so close to the project goal..
2011/3/6, Russ Nelson <[email protected]>: > Peter Budny writes: > > I find this discussion very distasteful. > > That's because nobody is talking about the REAL > solution. OpenStreetMap is the place for user-edited volunteered > geographic information. It's NOT the place for importing information > which would be nonsensical if a user edited it. > > The REAL solution is to have a ClosedStreetMap.org, which publishes > data in the same format under the same license using the same tag set > using the same API as OpenStreetMap, only it publishes read-only data. > Some of the imports that I've done (NYC bike racks, NYS DEC lands, and > NYS State Parks, which I'm currently working on), the data is > maintained elsewhere. It useful to have for OpenStreetMap users, but > not for OpenStreetMap editors. Why? Because for at least the last two, > the boundaries are off in the middle of sometimes very dense woods, > are not necessarily marked by signs, if signs are present they are not > authoritative, and the original source of the data is a legal > description, and no hand editing can change that. > > So take all these data sets, and their transformative programs, create > .osm files out of them, and throw them into a database. When you get > updates, rebuild the database. > > There's a few problems with the idea, e.g. what if somebody adds > something to OSM that's already in CSM? Or, what if the data, although > published from an authoritative source, is dirty? How does OSM > override data in CSM? > > But I think there are fewer problems than the current system of one > person dumping in megabytes for which there is no practical means of > updating with another import. > > -- > --my blog is at http://blog.russnelson.com > Crynwr supports open source software > 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815 > Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Inviato dal mio dispositivo mobile Fabio Alessandro Locati Home: Segrate, Milan, Italy (GMT +1) Phone: +39-328-3799681 MSN/Jabber/E-Mail: [email protected] PGP Fingerprint: 5525 8555 213C 19EB 25F2 A047 2AD2 BE67 0F01 CA61 Involved in: KDE, OpenStreetMap, Ubuntu, Wikimedia _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
