[Talk-us] Facts about the world
stevea
steveaOSM at softworkers.com
Sat Apr 4 22:10:22 UTC 2015
>OSM started out with the do-it-yourself, clean room approach of
>on-the-ground surveying. It offers the strongest guarantee of legal
>compliance and appropriateness for OSM -- no legal analysis
>required. All of us certainly hold such efforts in the highest
>esteem, but I do see an argument for letting contributors be
>resourceful in other ways, to *carefully and judiciously*
>incorporate other sources, as long as they do their best to document
>their work.
Thank you, Minh. That really is all I did with rail subdivisions in
California. As others have said, I could have asked the rail
companies (not by web, which yielded twin brick walls of "gotta log
in" and "copyright") perhaps by telephone or letter, in which case I
would have likely been given the answers, these being "facts about
the world." Or, I could have asked random people on the street, not
a good idea, so I didn't. What I did do was to *carefully and
judiciously* confirm these data thanks to publications by my
employees (the CPUC), and then I well documented that fact in my
changeset tags. Easy, peasy: "being resourceful" where it makes
sense to do so. And it seems to me, that should be totally fuss-free.
By the way, along with my GPS, a little wire-page note pad with
pencil and my decent memory/brain, I certainly do my fair share of
on-the-ground surveying, too.
SteveA
California
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