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

[Sam Vekemans]

fyi,
thats the way we are dealing with the CanVec data for Canada, not data
is blindly dropped in, it's simply carefully merged and added where
its needed.  So the overall map is exactly what osm- ccbysa/odbl map
is looking for.


It's not that hard to convert any data into small sized .osm files for
people to use.


In fact, i am creating a dataset spreadsheet (osm imports map) which
lists the locations of the source data, and where to find the ready
.osm files.
:)


OSM is not designed to work with external datasets. There is no need
to force it, as that is a different type of map project, with
different objectives.


cheers,
sam

On 9/29/10, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
> <avarab at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I *don't* mean that they could do it *automatically*. Distributed
>> version control systems don't do that either, you always need a human
>> to look at the result to see if it's sane.
>
> The problem with imports that have to be kept up to date manually is
> that they rarely *are* kept up to date manually.
>
> In any case, I think TIGER was a good import (despite the arguments to
> the contrary), but that's because the TIGER import was made at a
> completely different stage of OSM development.  If you wanted to
> import a road network today, it'd be a whole different story.  The
> import itself would be a merge.
>
> Imports today basically fall into the category of being a merge with
> existing data, or being an import of data which mappers aren't likely
> to be interested in maintaining (and therefore shouldn't be imported
> at all).  In the former case, either you've got the sync tools already
> in place at the time you make the import, or the import is manual from
> the start.
>
> If an import is done manually, I don't even think it really counts as
> an import for the purposes of this discussion.  It should be treated
> like any other editing.  Don't violate copyrights, don't import things
> which aren't verifiable, don't step on other people's tagging schemas,
> but other than that do as you please.
>
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