[Imports] United States Poultry Import

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Hi lectrician1 [1], 

I fully agree. 

Marcos 

Am 19.04.2022 13:24, schrieb 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 [1] 
> 
> 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
>> 
>> -- 
>> Frederik Ramm  ##  eMail frederik at remote.org  ##  N49°00'09" E008°23'33"
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