<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div>2012-09-18 <font face="Arial" size="2">Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk></font><br>> Pierre - I'm not arguing against imports. Only unmanaged ones and ones
we do not have easy access to the source data.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">> As I understand it you
can view the canvec data, but is it available as an overlay in an
editor? That is the part of the jigsaw</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">> that I'd like to see handled
better, so we can compare data against the existing map prior to any
import, and are ABLE</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">> to analyze just what of the data can be imported
directly and what needs to be merged in some way? Certainly a large
section</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">> of the OS data is only useful as reference material and any
import is only going to obliterate more accurate data, so having it</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">> available as an overlay works well.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Lester - The National ressources department is collaborating and produce OSM files from his topographic data. The community has established guidelines. In general, contributors edit this file into JOSM, comparing with what already exists. It is not an easy job. But these contributors have made fantastic efforts. We see too ofteen dogmatic
declarations against imports without any nuance.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">What we need as an organization is to establish governance practices that are efficient. I am jealous of all the tools developped by the France community. The Talk-fr is very active and they are doing a great job. If you are not convinced, just look at the map of France. <br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color:
transparent; font-style: normal;">And about governance, if this community cannot manage his contributors, who can? We continually have new mappers, some working more or less intensively. We should adapt or organization to this Wikipedia like structure and try to better structure local communities.</div><br> <div><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;">Pierre </span><br> <br></div> </div></body></html>