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

[Russ Nelson]

On Mar 10, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Dirk-Lüder Kreie wrote:
>
> I propose a social solution instead of a technical one.
>
> i.e. "please don't change, because..." instead of
> "you cannot change this, period".


I've not proposed a technical solution.  The question here is: should  
there be data in OSM which it doesn't make sense for anyone to  
change?  It's a question of how you interpret the data.  If it's "This  
is what NYS DEC says it manages", then no, it doesn't make ANY sense  
to change it.  If the data is "These are NYS's State Forests", then  
there's plenty of reason to change them.  Perhaps there's a typo, or  
some piece of data which simply doesn't make sense.  Data is produced  
by people, and can have mistakes it.

I'm tending towards doing the import, track the edits made to it, and  
report back here on exactly how the data gets changed.  I think we  
need more information.  I'll do the import under a special-purpose  
userid, so we can withdraw the import if necessary.

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