[Imports] "readonly" tag for imported data (ask "simple" editors to not modify)?

[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]

Dom, 2011-04-24 às 23:36 +0100, Richard Fairhurst escreveu:
> Jan Iven wrote:
> > As such, is there some agreed way for a large-scale import to pass
> > the message to editors such as Potlatch that they need not bother
> > editing these features? (this would allow me to go off and pester
> > these editors to actually honour such an attribute). Of course, the
> > editor could chose not to honour this (i.e. JOSM when
> > importing/improving some CORINE areas), but at least this would then
> > be intentional.
> 
> Potlatch is not a "simple" editor. You can, and many people do, use it 
> as your sole OSM editor. I will categorily not permit any function to be 
> added to it that prevents certain items from being edited.
> 
> OSM is a crowdsourced editable mapping platform. If you want to host 
> non-editable data in it, you're looking in the wrong place. This has 
> been discussed ad infinitum on the lists previously.
> 

Richard, 

Does it make sense to have administrative boundaries in OSM, since it
isn't a "crowdsourced editable" data? Or is it? Should we remove the
administrative boundaries from OSM? 

If someone by mistake simple remove or change (even worst) some
administrative boundaries, how many days you need to notice and fix
them? One week? One month? Definitely, you never invested days and days
fixing administrative data.

No one is saying that it shouldn't be editable. The Jan Iven's topic
makes sense, and the thread should go on, without this kind of "I will
categorily not permit". Do you own OSM? 

Happy mapping,

Jorge

> cheers
> Richard
> 
> 
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