<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Just to add a comment about local mappers sometimes there just aren't three local mappers within 50 kms to form a local community to bless an import.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Cheerio John<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 11:52, Jarek Piórkowski <<a href="mailto:jarek@piorkowski.ca">jarek@piorkowski.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 06:18, Christoph Hormann <<a href="mailto:osm@imagico.de" target="_blank">osm@imagico.de</a>> wrote:<br>
> It is my impression that the problem here runs much deeper. It gets<br>
> down to a fundamental dissent about what OSM is in essence - whether it<br>
> is a project for humans to cooperatively assemble their own local<br>
> knowledge or if it is a project with the primary goal to collect<br>
> subjectively useful geodata under a uniform license and in a uniform<br>
> format for the convenience of data users.<br>
><br>
> ... In most cases people planning imports<br>
> however have other goals that have higher priority for them (most<br>
> often 'getting the data they have into OSM' for the benefit of data<br>
> users) which makes attempts at working towards other goals fairly<br>
> pointless and frustrating.<br>
<br>
I like imports, but for quite another reason:<br>
<br>
As an OpenStreetMap editor, a resident of a largely empty country, and<br>
a human, I am interested in imports as otherwise the map of where I<br>
live will remain full of blank spots for decades. I want to see a map<br>
in the default OpenStreetMap.org layer, not a blank.<br>
<br>
I understand this is not a large motivator for humans in countries<br>
that do not have thousands of square kilometers of wilderness per<br>
possible mapper, let alone active mapper. But some understanding of<br>
our position would be appreciated.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
--Jarek<br>
<br>
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