[OSM-talk] SteveC should decide

Andy Allan gravitystorm at gmail.com
Fri Oct 2 10:10:24 BST 2009


2009/10/2 Russ Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com>:

> The alternative to consistency is to acknowledge that OSM is in fact
> inconsistently tagged, and to impose a proprietary layer on top of OSM
> which fixes it.  If we have to do that, then why are we bothering to
> make an open street map?  If you have to pay somebody to get
> consistent data, why not just license TeleAtlas?

The alternative to forcing arbitrary rules of consistency on our
volunteers is to acknowledge that OSM is in fact inconsistently
tagged, and chill out about the whole thing. Different people can then
experiment with different approaches to produce "consistent" datasets
tailored to their own needs. They don't need to be proprietary - in
fact, given the number of people around here talking about it I'd have
hoped someone would have stepped up and produced a tailored dataset by
now.

Cheers,
Andy




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