[Talk-us] Imports and Mass Edits in the US

[Serge Wroclawski]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Jason Remillard
<remillard.jason at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you setup a user group to "help" with the imports, I think it will
> be overrun with people that don't like all imports or are terrified of
> them being screwed up.

I haven't received any negative feedback about this committe except
for yours, so I think maybe your judgement's a bit premature.

> It will be like the UN human rights committee.
> More hostility, but now with an official sounding group name. In a
> sane world, there would be mappers that would be dedicated to imports.

You seem to have your mind made up about a group that hasn't had its
first meeting.

> They would build up expertise in licensing, data conversion, batch
> imports, large scale reverts, OSM processes, merging, efficiently
> communicating with locals, etc. However, if you came out and said "I
> do only imports", you would be getting hazed by the two groups of
> people all of the time. Does not sound like fun to me.

Only do things you enjoy, so if it doesn't sound like fun to you, then
I say don't join.

- Serge