[OSM-dev] ESRI article sent by a friend

[Jan Sandbrink]

Don't know if you can really make a hard cut, saying what is an "import" 
and what not. Or to make it more clear:
What is the difference between a good import of some data that is 10 
years old and a mapper that is drawing areas based on some 
landsat-imagery (which is as far as i know from 2003)? Both do add loads 
of data from a foreign source.

I don't think that old or imported data is a problem, as long as the 
import-quality is okay. (e.g. do not import data that we already have 
(street on an street)).

Jan

Am 16.07.2010 12:32, schrieb M∡rtin Koppenhoefer:
> 2010/7/12 Stefan de Konink<stefan at konink.de>:
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>> Op 12-07-10 14:15, Mike N. schreef:
>>> If the filters are
>>> predefined and the data is never shown for editing or rendering, why
>>> have it?
>>
>> For the simple reason that there is not only one rendering of /the/
>> OpenStreetMap map.
>
>
> I can see the point in this, but I'd rather prefer an openimportmap
> with a separate database, where you can upload all kind of rubbish and
> keep the main OSM-db as clean as possible from imports. There are
> actually a lot of mappers that go out and collect "unique"
> geoinformation manually, and I think that this is the key feature of
> OSM.
>
> cheers,
> Martin
>
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