[Imports] Import of forests, farmland and other types of land cover for Sweden generated from Naturvårdsverkets Nationella Marktäckedata 2018

[Jarek Piórkowski]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 06:18, Christoph Hormann <osm at imagico.de> wrote:
> It is my impression that the problem here runs much deeper.  It gets
> down to a fundamental dissent about what OSM is in essence - whether it
> is a project for humans to cooperatively assemble their own local
> knowledge or if it is a project with the primary goal to collect
> subjectively useful geodata under a uniform license and in a uniform
> format for the convenience of data users.
>
> ... In most cases people planning imports
> however have other goals that have higher priority for them (most
> often 'getting the data they have into OSM' for the benefit of data
> users) which makes attempts at working towards other goals fairly
> pointless and frustrating.

I like imports, but for quite another reason:

As an OpenStreetMap editor, a resident of a largely empty country, and
a human, I am interested in imports as otherwise the map of where I
live will remain full of blank spots for decades. I want to see a map
in the default OpenStreetMap.org layer, not a blank.

I understand this is not a large motivator for humans in countries
that do not have thousands of square kilometers of wilderness per
possible mapper, let alone active mapper. But some understanding of
our position would be appreciated.

Thanks,
--Jarek