[OSM-dev] ESRI article sent by a friend

[Stefan de Konink]

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Op 12-07-10 06:57, Alan Mintz schreef:
> At 2010-07-10 14:55, John Smith wrote:
>> On 11 July 2010 07:32, Thomas Emge <temge at esri.com> wrote:
>> > ...
>> Some like to think there is 2 types of importing, implopping is where
>> people blindly upload data without checking what they are importing or
>> what already exists,
> 
> ...which is unacceptable in any area or type of data for which there may
> be existing data in OSM. A good example was the import of the EPA
> superfund data, which was poorly geo-referenced, not discussed with
> other users, woefully incomplete (for some unknown reason), and
> duplicative of existing data. It was eventually reverted.

So why is this /so/ unacceptable? The renderer decides what to render.
If we end up in rendering only a specific subset of data, for example
from a list of users that we trust. Then any import is just ignored,
until something thinks its good enough to be used.


Stefan
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