[OSM-talk] immutable=yes Fwd: DEC Lands

[David Lynch]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 13:54, Russ Nelson <russ at cloudmade.com> wrote:
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> On Mar 9, 2009, at 2:39 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
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>>  if someone has data that must not be modified
>> (because of course it is 100% error free...?) then don't put that data
>> in OSM!
>
>
> *I* see OSM as an API for all possible geodata: everything that
> doesn't move, and a few things that do.  There are arguably many
> things currently in OSM which should not be edited.  For example,
> political boundaries at every level.

That assumes that they're correct in the first place and not going to
change. In a few spots (the Texas-Mexico border, for instance,) we
have three different sets of borders from three different imports for
three different administrative levels, none of which line up very will
with each other or with the river they're nominally running down the
middle of (as far as I know here, the de facto border here is the Rio
Grande/Rio Bravo's channel, not where it was running when it was
first/last surveyed.)

-- 
David J. Lynch
djlynch at gmail.com