On Friday 06 January 2017, john whelan wrote: > > I think we should be trying to build the community. We need a > balance between adding data without limits, and building the > community and building the community is hard.
Well - as overzealous as Nakaners intervention in this case might have been in a way it is a good sign that someone still cares. When Simon says "Canvec and broken import is essentially a synonym" that is not an exaggeration, if you mention Canvec in a typical European community meeting you usually just get a big sigh in return. I for one do not touch Canada in OSM any more, not even with a ten foot pole. And the only way this would change is a permanent moratorium on Canvec imports. But since i don't see this happening i sincerely hope you are able to build a big and active community even with the Canvec data - which seems difficult to me but it is not my place to judge this. > My roots are in the UK, I've mapped in the UK using local knowledge. > I live in Canada. Am I part of the UK local community of mappers? To me local community means the community of local mappers. To what extent a local mapper stays a local mapper after moving away and how far you can become a local mapper during a short term visit is an open question. But this is just minor semantics. The important thing is that OSM is primarily about local knowledge and human assessment of the on-the-ground situation. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
