[Imports] United States Poultry Import

[Seth Deegan]

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

Feel free to import whatever you like, as long as it is quality and
relevant. I fully support it. We're here to make a quality map. We might as
well use quality data if it already exists.

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

I don't think their intentions are to make it an IT project. They want
to contribute to OpenStreetMap, just in a different way. Why are you on the
imports mailing list if you don't are not okay with imports?

lectrician1 <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Lectrician1>


El mar, 19 abr 2022 a la(s) 06:04, Frederik Ramm (frederik at remote.org)
escribió:

> 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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