[Talk-ca] Canadian imports: good or bad?

Gordon Dewis gordon at pinetree.org
Sun Apr 15 16:49:50 BST 2012


On 2012-04-15, at 11:09 AM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:

> Let's talk about it again.  How do we feel about the bulk copying of
> information from a permitted source into OpenStreetMap in Canada?
> 
> To be clear, I'm not suggesting that we discuss whether external data
> sources are good or not.  External data sources are good.  I'm
> suggesting that we review how we best make use of those external
> sources.
> 
Generally, I don't see why we shouldn't avail ourselves of such information. As Stewart pointed put, we're a huge sparsely-populated country. However, there needs to be a system to help avoid conflicting with similar/identical data being collected by local mappers.





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