[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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