[OSM-talk] import of dataset for new zealand

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Robin Paulson <robin.paulson at gmail.com> wrote:
>  in the first case, there is room for two attributions - one is the
>  proposed read-only tag, called attribution, which is set to 'linz' or
>  whatever. the second is from the edit history, retrieved by the API,
>  set to the username of an osm user, updated whenever the item is
>  tweaked (i.e. write and read)
>
>  in the second case,....well i see this as unlikely. how any orgs are
>  willing to go to the cost of creating a duplicate data set for an area
>  (by which i mean same data, same area), when they can get one that
>  exists immediately?

I know you think this is hypothetical but it's a very real problem. In
NL we got the AND data and in the next year or two we will get access
to the NWB, which is the map compiled by the govt. It's not clear at
all that one is going to be better than the other and merging them is
going to be a real problem.

It's fortunate that neither ask for attribution or we'd have a serious
problem on our hands.

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/