[Imports] How good can an import be?

[Steve Coast]

Does anyone have any *scientific* data on this one way or the other?

Muki - I figure a paper or something on the role of imports on community 
/ data quality might be interesting?



On 4/7/2011 1:42 AM, steggink at steggink.org wrote:
> Quoting steggink at steggink.org:
>
>> Maybe it's dangerous to say, but I think that the growth of the Dutch
>> community has been negatively affected due to the AND import. The scale
>> of the Netherlands is not comparable to the US and Canada, and I think
>> it would have been feasible to have the road network in the country
>> mapped completely one or two years ago. As a result, the Dutch
>> community is relatively small, compared to the UK and Germany. Not that
>> many OSM related events are being organized, and those who are
>> organized often have a low turnout.
>
> To be clear, the AND import was discussed and agreed upon by the Dutch 
> community at that time (and I wasn't even registered as a OSM user). 
> It's only a few years afterwards that I sometimes think what the 
> map/community would have been if the AND import has not happened. A 
> typical 20/20 hindsight case...
>
> Frank
>
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