[OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] In what direction should OSM go?

[Peter Wendorff]

  On 29.09.2010 13:54, Pieren wrote:
> I'm not feeling more responsible for data created by other OSM 
> contributors than third-party geodata. Both have errors or will be 
> outdated soon or later.
> I think the point  is more about contributing in areas almost empty or 
> in areas almost well mapped (whatever it is completed by contributors 
> or imports). The first is "creation" and you see immediately the 
> effect on the rendered maps, the second is "maintenance" and is much 
> less funny. That's two different types of contributions and two 
> different public.
>
+1

The problem exists - of course, and yet it is visible mainly at bit imports,
but in future we will have changing mappers: People stop mapping, new 
generations of mappers start.
For these people we need motivation strategies to check, update and 
optimize data already mapped.
Same thing is with imports, but I think, that's only the first part of 
the problem obvious now.
Stopping imports will not help to solve the overall problem.

regards
Peter