[Imports] Importing names of homeowners : Nepal Red Cross

[Ludwig]

The one thing you have to consider though that this information is what
identifies a house in Nepal, where (outside of cities) no street names or
numbers exist and houses are passed down generations.

Everyone such areas would know a farm by its owner's name and refer to it
that way.
A map for Nepal without that information is useless, just as a map without
street names and house numbers would be useless in Europe.

If OSM wants to be a map that is useful in Nepal for local people you will
need this information.

(Why would collecting that information be possibly illegal? If that was the
case, any telephone book would be highly illegal).

Ludwig


On 18 February 2015 at 19:46, Darrell Fuhriman <darrell at garnix.org> wrote:

> Gotta agree. Privacy issues aside, I don’t think it’s appropriate to OSM.
>
> I don’t think a full revert is necessary if we can remove the offending
> tags.
>
> d.
>
>
> On Feb 18, 2015, at 14:19, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net> wrote:
>
> > On 2/18/15 4:05 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On 02/18/2015 08:07 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> >>> I noticed an import today that brings up some issues and a general
> >>> principle.
> >> Unsure if it is an import at all. Surely the addition of personal data
> >> would violate data protection rules in European countries. I have added
> >> a note to the changeset asking what this is about. If this cannot be
> >> cleared up then I'm leaning towards a revert on data protection grounds.
> >>
> > i don't think this kind of data belongs in OSM at all.
> >
> > richard
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