Mar 19, 2020, 12:28 by [email protected]: > Hi, > > a propos a recent statement from our friends at Facebook in which they > make plans for the future of our project, > > https://tech.fb.com/map-with-ai-updates/ > >> Beyond AI-based data sets, one of the biggest challenges for OSM is >> importing even readily available authoritative data sets >> ... >> our hope is that RapiD can become a tool that’s simple enough for anyone to >> import and verify new data sets and to make use of these powerful tools >> I agree that it sounds like "we are building tool that will let us ignore import guidelines" > I would like to reiterate that the "challenge" is not that it is > difficult to import "authoritative data sets"; the problem is that > authoritative data sets are fundamentally incompatible with the way we > operate in OpenStreetMap. > I would not say so strongly, some datasets can be imported and were very useful (for example address data in Poland - where are imported settlement by settlement, with significant effort to review and to not import low quality areas ). > To quote just an obvious example, the > government of India certainly has an authoritative data set about where > their boundaries are, it's just that this does not align with facts on > the ground and hence our data is different. The past has shown that > petrol station chains also have "authoritative" data sets about their > stations but they are riddled with bugs, and not suitable for wholesale > import. > Yes, not everything is importable. > I think that someone who cannot respect these basic tenets of > OpenStreetMap - that mappers on the ground have the last word on what > gets into OSM and what not - shouldn't be allowed to publish software > that interacts with our database. I think we should disallow any > contributions made with RapID/map-with-ai and friends. > Is there any case of actually misusing RapiD to make imports in violation of import guidelines? Is there case where RapiD developers refused to modify/fix features that encourage mindless importing without review? I dislike FB (and their ongoing refusal to properly attribute OSM on maps that they are displaying is not improving my opinion), but I would not ban them based on just that.
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