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

[Jason Remillard]

Hi Serge,

You are tougher man than me :-)

How about this, nobody on the committee that has not personally done
at least 1 large import. If you do that, I am happy. Like I said,
these imports require a bunch of specialized skills, it would be good
to build up an expertise in it.

Thanks
Jason.

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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