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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>One could argue that an import brings people together under an organized highly focused project with a very attainable end goal. The import I started last year garnered users I’d never heard of and connected me with a user at Mapbox that wanted to do similar work, regionally, in my area.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I haven’t seen anything detrimental from my experiences thus far. I’m hoping to dig into the Minnesota buildings from Microsoft to see where some good work could be done with an import outside areas that have stereo digitized buildings.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Joe Sapletal</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:m@rtijn.org">Martijn van Exel</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, July 3, 2018 9:21 AM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:imports@openstreetmap.org">imports@openstreetmap.org</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Imports] Bing Building Import</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Jul 3, 2018, at 03:55, Frederik Ramm wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> ...Large imports are often detrimental to community building, ...</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Can you point to some data / research that backs this up?</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Martijn</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>Imports mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>Imports@openstreetmap.org</p><p class=MsoNormal>https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>