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<p>So you decided that the Imports mailing list isn't useful and is
too 20th Century for you. <br>
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<p>Don't you see how arrogant and disconnected you sound?</p>
<p>An hour a week was spent in the provider's office, but not once
was the process required by OSM to do imports mentioned? <br>
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<p>It may have been done by WM team, but clearly at least two
directors of OSMUK support this flawed process.</p>
<p>I repeat: What a Mess.</p>
Chris.<br>
P.S. telling me not to worry is horribly patronising Rob, please
don't do it.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 19/03/2017 15:04, Rob Nickerson
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<div dir="auto">Hi Chris,
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<div dir="auto">I don't think any of us are members of the
import mailing list and I don't see the point of joining any
more mailing lists. They represent an arcane 20th century
solution that allows a few negative comments to derail a
locally supported project.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Mailing list posts drift off topic way too
easily any it's never clear when "consensus" is found. <span
style="font-family:sans-serif">Richard F did the right thing
in 2013 when he quit them and I encourage others to do the
same</span></div>
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<div dir="auto">Few people replied to Brian's messages on the
local list as we had already discussed and agreed it. Thus for
every negative email there are usually many people who support
it but just don't post.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Far from a bad import i think this is a great
example to hold up as a good case study. Who else would spend
an hour a week in the data providers office discussing not
just the current data but methodologies for keeping it up to
date.</div>
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<div dir="auto">The new and old data is being consolidated as
Brian mentioned in his post yesterday. Everything is in hand,
so no need to worry.</div>
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<div dir="auto">We are making huge strives forwards in the West
Midlands and I'm looking forward to Open Data becoming the
norm as a result of Brian's hard work.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Rob</div>
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<div dir="auto">P.s. this is being done by the local community
not OSM UK which is still working up it's first project. As a
fellow Director however I fully support Brian. I'm glad we
have set up OSM UK and I hope it can get involved in similar
projects where it is provided the devolved powers it needs to
cater for it's community rather than leaving those decisions
to an unclear "central power" that goes round in circles
effectively preventing any new ideas seeing the light of day.</div>
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