<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Erik Johansson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emj@kth.se">emj@kth.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Ian Dees <<a href="mailto:ian.dees@gmail.com">ian.dees@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Matt Amos <<a href="mailto:zerebubuth@gmail.com">zerebubuth@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Ian Dees <<a href="mailto:ian.dees@gmail.com">ian.dees@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > Actually, I was just now creating a stub page for API 0.7 brainstorming:<br>
>> ><br>
>> > <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.7" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.7</a><br>
>> ><br>
>> > Remember, it's a brainstorm: all ideas are good ideas at this point...<br>
>> > ;-).<br>
>><br>
>> cool! although i'd consider "verified users / locked tags" to be an<br>
>> anti-feature ;-)<br>
>><br>
><br>
> Yea, I suppose that requires some discussion. The idea arose from a meeting<br>
> I recently attended with some US city government GIS people that have<br>
> expressed interest in maintaining (at least part of) their official GIS<br>
> database in OpenStreetMap. Their number one fear/concern is an OSM editor<br>
> changing the "official" boundary of a state forest, pulling that change back<br>
> to do cartography for a hunting season (for example), and then having a land<br>
> owner call them up asking why people are hunting on their land.<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>Migurski posted a blog about signing openstreetmap edits. So that you<br>
can be sure that the edit is alright. (But this is ass yout UUID<br>
mostly a client thing)<br>
<a href="http://mike.teczno.com/notes/gosm.html" target="_blank">http://mike.teczno.com/notes/gosm.html</a><br>
<br>
The question is do these bulk imports of legal boundaries really<br>
belong in Openstreetmap? Since they are not really editable, you can<br>
only change them by doing bulk import again.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>I agree, and pointed that out to the government people asking. OSM should probably have some boundary data to make pretty maps, but since a regular old citizen can't walk up to the border, stick their GPS in the ground and say "ah hah! The border was off by 0.12 degrees, I shall now go update OSM!" it probably should not be in the official OSM database to begin with.<br>
<br>However, someone else at the meeting countered that in Europe, where borders aren't so easy to come by in a licensable format, they seem to survive just fine with having border data be crowd-sourced. <br><br>I tried to redirect the conversation by pointing out that other data, such as schools or water fountain POI, would be a much better option for insertion into OSM, at least to start off.<br>