<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp38ac6818yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div><div><br></div><div><span> Christoph Hormann wrote :</span><br></div><div><span>> The problem is that these two visions of OSM are mutually exclusive. If <br clear="none">> you want OSM to focus on cooperatively assembling local knowledge you <br clear="none">> have to accept that the only way you are going to fill blank spots in <br clear="none">> the map is by motivating people to acquire local knowledge of these <br clear="none">> areas and sharing it in OSM and that imports can only work in a support <br clear="none">> role for craft mapping and not to fill in blank spots.<br clear="none"></span><div><br></div><div>Christoph, your arguments corresponds to saying that only West-Europe-OSM map should be reflected, and others have to adapt to your reality.<br></div><div><br></div> <div><span>Let's again present the northern territory in Québec province. Population of 35,000 in isolated villages and a surface of 1,027,000 km². This corresponds to UK + France + Germany. Talking of local communities and ground mapping, are we saying that in such territories, the communities, the touristic and mining activities, hydro-electric facilities should be mapped as isolated islands in the middle of a blank map? If I understand you, you are satisfied of that and want to impose this vision to the large OSM community ?<br></span></div><div><span></span><br></div><div>regard<br></div></div><div class="ydp38ac6818signature"><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;"> <br><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif">Pierre </font><br></span></div></div>
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