[Imports] United States Poultry Import

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 19.04.22 12:10, Hiausirg wrote:
> I'm planning a relatively small import of chicken slaughterhouses and processing sites in the US - All details are at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_Poultry_Import - see also the talk page there.

I think that you are concerning yourself too much with imports.

OpenStreetMap is not an IT project, it is a 
put-your-feet-on-the-ground-and-map-stuff project.

You have recently complained that lack of enthusiasm for your imports 
threatens to demotivate you.

Have you considered that you might be able to draw more motivation from 
OSM by mapping things yourself, rather than scouring public datasets for 
stuff that might be suitable to import, and then treating OSM as if it 
were an IT project? Perhaps your lack of motivation comes from this 
mismatch.

Is it really a good idea for you to be adding chicken slaughterhouses to 
the map thousands of miles away from where you are based on blindly 
trusting a government source?

OSM currently has 11 objects in the US with "product=meat". After your 
import, there would be 4000, meaning that over 99.6% of all 
"product=meat" objects will have come from your import. There are 
currently 50 slaughterhosues in OSM in the US, and after your import 
there will be 750, i.e. over 90% of all slaughterhouses will be from 
your import. I doubt that this is a good idea.

Additionally, were you do go ahead with this import I would strongly 
suggest not to use a source=* tag on every single imported feature. Put 
that on the changeset instead.

Bye
Frederik

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