[Talk-us] HI: Hawaii GIS Data

[Alan Millar]

> Please take a read of
> http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/shine/archives/2009/11/10/the-pottery- 
> club/


It started out as an interesting story, until I got to the  
"outsiders".  Outsiders?!?!  You have GOT to be kidding me.  Next are  
we going to have a manhood contest about who has the longer, um, OSM  
pedigree?

OSM is bigger than one little club.  Are you and Andy going to come  
and survey my neighborhood?  No, because you aren't *here*.  But I am  
*here*, and I've got some neighbors here, and collectively we want to  
import starting data and we are happy with working with it.  Believe  
it or not, somehow we managed to figure out how to find the "delete"  
key on our keyboards.

Here's a better analogy:  you and your friends started a pottery club  
in your town, and now you want to tell me what I can do with the  
pottery club in my town. Yes, I have 100000 unfinished vases outside  
my back door that I got for free, but I'm not supposed to give them  
to any of my 300 million neighbors who don't know how to do pottery  
yet; they have to wait to have a vase until they make it themselves  
from scratch.  That sounds a little unreasonable to me.

- Alan