Yeah it will be interesting to see what the board has to say about this in
more detail. I think on the whole I'm glad the decision has gone this way. In
my mind the case of Crimea has hung in the balance with very strong arguments
in favour of both approaches.
I have great respect for the way DWG have handled things. Basically it seems
they treated Crimea "with kid gloves" (as Stereo puts it) for a few years, and
more recently tried to transition towards better alignment with our policies.
So (as with other crap they have to deal with) it's a shame they've born the
brunt of various attacks about this.
I would hope the board's decision is not, and should not be interpreted as, a
rebuking of DWG, but rather it desire to work with DWG to reanalyse this and
make adjustments to our policy to better match this kind of scenario. No need
to be up-in-arms about anything here.
...but I'm putting words in other people's mouths. Let's wait and see what the
board has to say (and yeah give them some time. We're all volunteers)
Harry Wood
On Monday, 10 December 2018, 18:12:44 GMT, Manfred A. Reiter
<[email protected]> wrote:
"When in doubt, also consider the "on the ground rule": map the world as it
can be observed by someone physically there."
source: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/How_We_Map
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## Manfred Reiter - mobile -
## please excuse typos and brevity
Am Mo., 10. Dez. 2018, 11:58 hat Martijn van Exel <[email protected]> geschrieben:
Hi all,
On November 17, the OSMF Board of Directors received a request to review the
Nov 14, 2018 Data Working Group decision regarding Crimea.
The Board decided that this decision is to be reversed and the previous
situation, as laid out in the May 5, 2014 Data Working Group minutes, is to
further remain in effect.
The board highly values the Data Working Group’s work and appreciates the
difficulty and complexity of the cases they are asked to review on an ongoing
basis.
A more comprehensive statement will follow in the next weeks.
Best regards,
Martijn van Exel
Secretary, OpenStreetMap Foundation
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