[Talk-us] Imports information on the wiki

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 01/03/2012 12:01 AM, Mike N wrote:
> Mostly because of customary resistance to automatic imports, which is
> rooted in bad imports.

I think that even imports that are well executed *technically* are 
usually bad because they worsen the ratio of "mapper hours available to 
maintain data" to "amount of data requiring maintenance".

Imports should only be allowed if there is a realistic expecation that 
the presence of the imported data will lead to a growth in our community 
of about the number of people that would have been required to survey 
the imported data in the first place.

Bye
Frederik

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