[OSM-dev] ESRI article sent by a friend

[John Smith]

On 12 July 2010 15:11, Stefan de Konink <stefan at konink.de> wrote:
> 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.

It's a simple cost verse benefit analysis, is the data going to be
more beneficial than the effort needed to make it useful. If it causes
a lot of duplication or extra work for minimal benefit then that kind
of defeats the purpose of importing. Selective importing, or at least
some kind of scripts that compare existing data with new data can help
improve the noise to signal ratio considerably.