[Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

[Russ Nelson]

Simon Poole writes:
 > Am 02.06.2014 06:28, schrieb Russ Nelson:
 > > ..................................... Let's say that I follow this
 > > route on my bicycle using a cue sheet and keep a GPS track. Then I load
 > > my GPS track into JOSM and create a relation and call it USBRS #47 (or
 > > whatever). How is this an import??
 > >
 > While not quite what you intended,

No, that's exactly what I intended. I think that nobody would be
complaining if I did the above. How, then, does it suddenly become an
import if I skip the step where I bicycled the portion of the route I
am entering? I cannot see how it does.

I'm not arguing about the quality of the route chosen by AASHTO. Maybe
they did a good job, maybe they didn't. I'm saying that the negative
characteristics of an import are completely absent from this project:
>   o imports create a whole new set of nodes.
>   o imports can have copyright issues.
>   o imports can be non-human-scale.
>   o imports can be data dumps that don't get maintained.
>   o imports make bulk changes to the database.

If an import is completely signed in every case, that doesn't solve
any of the problems caused by an import.

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