<div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I think that you are concerning yourself too much with imports.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Feel free to import whatever you like, as long as it is quality and relevant. I fully support it. We're here to make a quality map. We might as well use quality data if it already exists.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">OpenStreetMap is not an IT project, it is a<br>put-your-feet-on-the-ground-and-map-stuff project.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't think their intentions are to make it an IT project. They want to contribute to OpenStreetMap, just in a different way. Why are you on the imports mailing list if you don't are not okay with imports?</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Lectrician1" target="_blank">lectrician1</a></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">El mar, 19 abr 2022 a la(s) 06:04, Frederik Ramm (<a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org">frederik@remote.org</a>) escribió:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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On 19.04.22 12:10, Hiausirg wrote:<br>
> I'm planning a relatively small import of chicken slaughterhouses and processing sites in the US - All details are at <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_Poultry_Import" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_Poultry_Import</a> - see also the talk page there.<br>
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I think that you are concerning yourself too much with imports.<br>
<br>
OpenStreetMap is not an IT project, it is a <br>
put-your-feet-on-the-ground-and-map-stuff project.<br>
<br>
You have recently complained that lack of enthusiasm for your imports <br>
threatens to demotivate you.<br>
<br>
Have you considered that you might be able to draw more motivation from <br>
OSM by mapping things yourself, rather than scouring public datasets for <br>
stuff that might be suitable to import, and then treating OSM as if it <br>
were an IT project? Perhaps your lack of motivation comes from this <br>
mismatch.<br>
<br>
Is it really a good idea for you to be adding chicken slaughterhouses to <br>
the map thousands of miles away from where you are based on blindly <br>
trusting a government source?<br>
<br>
OSM currently has 11 objects in the US with "product=meat". After your <br>
import, there would be 4000, meaning that over 99.6% of all <br>
"product=meat" objects will have come from your import. There are <br>
currently 50 slaughterhosues in OSM in the US, and after your import <br>
there will be 750, i.e. over 90% of all slaughterhouses will be from <br>
your import. I doubt that this is a good idea.<br>
<br>
Additionally, were you do go ahead with this import I would strongly <br>
suggest not to use a source=* tag on every single imported feature. Put <br>
that on the changeset instead.<br>
<br>
Bye<br>
Frederik<br>
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Frederik Ramm ## eMail <a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org" target="_blank">frederik@remote.org</a> ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33"<br>
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