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

[Richard Fairhurst]

Russ Nelson wrote:
> How do people feel about me importing this data (with all of 
> their metadata), adding an immutable=yes tag, with the intent 
> of tracking their dataset, and deleting --outright-- any changes 
> made by OSM editors.

If it can't be edited, there's no point sending it to the editor. It would
only mean more bandwidth => slower editing. Therefore I would alter
amf_controller so that anything with immutable=yes wasn't sent to Potlatch.

(At which point most of Germany would tag their towns immutable=yes... but I
digress. :) )

So what's the point of having it there? I presume so that people can get it
via the OSM API and via planet dumps (you've said as much in another post:
"consistent metadata and a consistent single-source API").

To me, this is another argument for good libraries in popular scripting
languages, not for putting it in OSM. If I could do a call from Perl or
ActionScript or Ruby whatever to say "get all geodata within this bbox from
openstreetmap.org, and also freesurveyorsstuff.org, and return it in one
object", that would fulfil the need - without bending OSM to do something it
was never intended to do.

cheers
Richard
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