[Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

[Toby Murray]

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If parcel data is important to disaster response, I would expect the
>> responder to go get the most up to date data from the source, not use stale
>> data that was imported into OSM (potentially) some years ago
>
> Doesn't Haiti and Fukushima render this argument irrelevant?

How would having parcel boundaries in OSM have helped in Haiti? The
value of OSM in the Haiti response was that it contained NEW and
UPDATED data from fresh sources and that the update cycle from getting
new raw data, digitizing it and publishing it for consumers is
immediate.

Toby