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

[David Lynch]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:36, Russ Nelson <russ at cloudmade.com> wrote:
> No one has been able to refute my claim that if someone would enter it
> by hand, it belongs in OSM regardless of its source.  And if it comes
> from surveyed data, then it makes no sense to edit its position.
> Metadata, perhaps.  But unless you've been out in the field with a
> theolodite, you have no business changing the location of the NYS DEC
> Lands position.

That's because we don't have a problem with data coming from
government sources that we could go out and collect ourselves. I don't
think most in the group disagree with the assertion that it's more
accurate than anything that we're likely to collect. We do have a
problem with the insistence that it can never be changed. (Even if
there's no need to change it.)

It's like agreeing to let someone put their translation of a book onto
a wiki but only under the condition that nobody changes it. It may be
technically flawless, but if you're not going to allow edits, there
are read-only ways of putting it out there.

-- 
David J. Lynch
djlynch at gmail.com