[Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

[Randal Hale]

Apparently my last reply was rejected from the Moderation police - and 
it was probably a good thing...

Low wage? Low Skilled? Do as little as possible? That's not a good 
description of public domain data or how that data came into existence. 
There's a lot of good data collected by skilled people in the mapping 
industry that is public domain. You really need to re-think that 
description or provide some citation proving that assertion.

Randy

Randal Hale, GISP
North River Geographic Systems, Inc
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On 12/31/2012 1:34 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Jeff Meyer <jeff at gwhat.org> wrote:
>> Why does "imports" mean "not crowdsourced," if the crowd determines which
>> imports are source-able?
> Crowdsourced means that we survey the data indivdually.
>
>> Why doesn't public-domain data that the crowd has funded count as
>> crowdsourced?
> Because the folks collecting that data aren't part of our community;
> they're often low wage, low skilled workers looking to do as little as
> they can. That doesn't mean the data is all bad, but it's not from our
> community.
>
> That doesn't mean all imports are bad; in fact, I think some imports
> can be good, but there is a distinction to be made.
>
> - Serge
>
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