<p>There were three problems with the corine imports: accuracy, age (and "updatibility") and editor support.</p>
<p>I do not see why those cannot be solved in this case.</p>
<p>Accuracy is (in my opinion) not and issue: the objects directly converted have an almost centimeter precision. Certainly, no map is 100% correct ever. And that is why localers have to check and merge the changes manually. There is no easy way in this case.</p>
<p>Second:</p>
<p>Source data is updated every 3 or 4 months, I do not recall. Oficial ref tags can be used to check this fact. If the object it is deleted or converted, it is the mappers fault and responsability of all osmers to keep the shape and tags updated, as with any other regular element.</p>
<p>Also please do not say that these imports will become orphan and forgotten soon. Converting a small town takes over 4 hours of computing on a good PC. There are 8000 municipalities in Spain. And that is only for the automatic process. I one decides to use this source data will be because (s)he is interested in that place. You have to be quite technology-savy to use the conversion tool.</p>
<p>Third, editor problems. Ok, this may be an actual problem. Although I think it not an issue of this particular set of data, but has to do with the way relations work.<br>
However, instead of saying: "please do not upload. Full stop.", I think we can discuss and agree to see how and what can be uploaded and maybe even start a parallel project to improve our current tools. We are not in a hurry.</p>
<p>Client-side layers I think it is something that really has sense, for example.</p>
<p>So, I would say that it is not a question of quantity over community or quality. For me community is a mean to reach the real objective: free and open data. And as they just said at the Spanish list, they are not to be in conflict.<br>
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Jaime Crespo<br>
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