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

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 13:44, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:

> Of course, if keeping stuff in sync is practically impossible, a good
> import is probably going to have to be manual (if you can't keep stuff
> in sync, and the data is in a form which is already commonly used for
> non-imported data, then you can't avoid redundancies in the import).

This is largely a problem with our tools, not something that can't be
fixed.

Distributed version control systems already solve the problem of
merging foreign data where your copy of it has moved since the
original import, there's no reason for why we couldn't make keeping
imports up-to-date significantly easier using similar techniques.