[OSM-talk] wikiproject rail?

[David Sheldon]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 12:09:09AM +0100, Tom Chance wrote:
> So long as that is the case, and we lack editorial control (quite possibly a 
> good thing), and we lack a clear way of signposting certain data as being 
> appropriate for some other established project (e.g. "walking routes? go to 
> freemap! bus routes? go to freebus!)... the OSM database is quite likely to 
> get data that many people consider extraneous to OSM's core goals.

Feel free to put whatever data you like into OSM, but expect it to get
really really slow, and harder to use as the tagging system has to
expand to tag all this new data. 

The main complaints about OSM at the moment are speed and ease of use.

David

-- 
"Access is really sh!t; I can't believe people actually store data in it."
  -- jmm