[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 12:44, Christoph Hormann <osm at imagico.de> wrote:
> So
> frankly i have very little understanding for your special position
> here.  Have you considered that one of the reasons why the active
> mapping community in Canada is so small is that you are discouraging
> potential craft mappers (in particular also ones from abroad) with the
> imports?

I considered it - then I looked at the math and guessed that there
were unlikely to be a million craft mappers, in Canada or abroad, who
would each craft a 2x3 km bit of wilderness, if only a messy import
wasn't in the way. If a thousand - about 5-10% of the weekly active
worldwide OSM mappers - each mapped 2x3 km each weekend, it would only
take 19 years.

So frankly it doesn't seem to me very likely to be a deciding factor.
But it certainly is _a_ factor.

> Anyway - lets not loose track of the subject here.  I made kind of a
> fundamental statement here in response to Peda's suggestion for
> adjusting the rules for imports but i don't think this should
> overshadow the specific discussion of the import in Sweden.

Absolutely. Let's let the Swedish contributors speak.

Best,
--Jarek