<div>We've drifted from a question about governance to a talk about usefulness of some kind of data in OSM which is something completely relative and personal.</div><div><br></div><div>As far as I know, DWG doesn't exist to deal with usefulness of data nor quality of contributions, but copyright infringement, vandalism and disputes.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Still no answer to my main original questions:<div>- who decided the import guidelines ?<div>- who decided to make the dedicated account mandatory ?</div></div><div><br></div><div>I'm also surprised by "1st time mappers are recommend to immediately start importing instead of going outside". This is absolutely false. There is no priority put on importing cadastre building in France as you wrote it.</div>
<div>What a twisted point of view !</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">2012/9/18 Simon Poole <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simon@poole.ch" target="_blank">simon@poole.ch</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
The French cadastre imports are, as you know, a rather controversial subject. In my opinion it is a dataset that doesn't actually increase the usefulness of the OSM dataset for most users (building outlines without addresses just don't really help with anything) and distracts beginner mappers from actually mapping (1st time mappers are recommend to immediately start importing insted of going outside). Further more, like essentially all imports, the external dataset is not about to go away, so there is no reason to prioritize this import over adding useful stuff.<br>
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BUT the import guidelines do not contain a provision that the data imported actually has to be useful and if the French community wants to spend (waste?) immense amount of time on this, nobody is going to stop it as long as it doesn't severely impact operations and/or use of OSM data.<br>
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However it would seem to be a very reasonable, light-weight, requirement that the imported data be separated from personal contributions, just as we require from other imports (yes I have heard all the stories about everything being manually checked etc, if you believe that, I have a couple of bridges that I would like to sell to you).<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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PS: and I didn't even complained about the 3GB of cadastre source tags that we distribute with every planet<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>-- <br>Christian Quest - OpenStreetMap France - <a href="http://openstreetmap.fr/u/christian-quest" target="_blank">http://openstreetmap.fr/u/cquest</a><br>
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