[OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

[Anthony]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Jaak Laineste <jaak.laineste at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I like this test because it will make things easy. No fuzzy shades of grey like
>> some Richard is suggesting. Can you give an example of a thing that is done by a
>> human being and that is not art by this definition?
>
>  Humans create many non-art things. For example databases it
> human-created items. Database of phone numbers of a telco operator,
> financial accounting database, state registry of roads.

Software, maps, encyclopedias, textbooks...

> If two persons
> are creating the same database, then only reason why there can be
> differences is that there there is clear mistake  in one of them,
> without any doubt.

If two people are creating the same database, then there aren't any
differences, because then they wouldn't be the same database.