[Imports] Ottawa, Canada Tree Import

[Christoph Hormann]

On Tuesday 04 July 2017, James wrote:
> >But i understand that as Canadians you have a reputation to defend -
> > i mean with marvels like this:
> >
> >http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/45.40668/-75.66268
>
> You are assuming that we had the most up to date imagery at all
> times [...] 
> When you "assume" you only make an "ass" of "u" and "me".
>
> I must also ask you Christoph to remain respectful on the mailing
> list and not generilize for an entire country, we can easily make
> generilizations about Germany as well, but it's non-constructive and
> counter-productive and creates a toxic enviroment for the community.

Well - i am confident that judgement on who is disrespectful, who is 
non-constructive, who makes baseless assumptions about what others 
think and do and who generalizes about perceived classes of people 
based on superficial observations can for the most part be safely left 
for the readers to decide.

When i speak of the reputation of Canadians w.r.t. import quality this 
is neither a judgement on Canadians (a few dozen people actively 
importing data in Canada is obviously not representative for the 
Canadian OSM community as a whole) nor a generalization, this is based 
on on countless conversations with other data users about data quality 
(which communicate a very clear and uniform image) and my own 
experience as a data user on a global scale (which allows for a fairly 
objective comparison of data quality world wide).

Regarding the "imported buildings on soccer pitch" i can only say: 
q.e.d. (although to go truely full circle here i whould of course have 
to wait to see if i am able to show the "imported tree on soccer 
pitch" - which however might not happen now that - so to speak - the 
observer has influenced the experiment).

As i have already hinted in the past the best measure to ensure a 
friendly and productive atmosphere in the import review process would 
be to separate this mailing list into a "import cheer and fanclub 
filter bubble" list and an actual import review list.   

-- 
Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/