[Talk-us] parcel data in OSM
Russ Nelson
nelson at crynwr.com
Sat Dec 29 03:22:17 GMT 2012
Ian Dees writes:
> Frederik's point is that you should only map things that other mappers can
> verify or improve on. Since you can't verify borders and boundaries or
> otherwise make them any better than the government data after they're
> imported, they don't belong in OSM.
Anybody can verify that the data is accurate by checking it against
the original. Next objection?
No, seriously, I *do* use the governmental data that Frederick and
apparently Ian is objecting to, and I use it by loading it out of
OSM.
This is not a new discussion, and we didn't come to a conclusion
satisfactory to all parties the last N times we had it.
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