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

[john whelan]

Just to add a comment about local mappers sometimes there just aren't three
local mappers within 50 kms to form a local community to bless an import.

Cheerio John

On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 11:52, Jarek Piórkowski <jarek at piorkowski.ca> wrote:

> 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
>
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