[OSM-talk] Countries that have NOT had any imports?

Kai Krueger kakrueger at gmail.com
Wed Sep 29 23:29:46 BST 2010


On 29/09/10 22:58, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Kai Krueger wrote:
>> With imports I thereby mean both full imports and "tracing imports", i.e.
>> any data that has been copied one way or another over from a third party
>> source.
>
> Including aerial imagery? Including stuff traced from Landsat?

Let's leave areal imagery out for the moment. Although if, lets say, 
half the country is mapped from outside "armchair" mappers through 
tracing, it would probably be similar.

>
>> Currently all of the active countries I can think of have had substantial
>> imports
>
> Define "substantial"?

I am flexible there. But I had in mind counting something such as a city 
wide import, all regional roads, land areas, borders, or things like 
that "substantial".

>
>> and so I am wondering, which country would not be affected if for
>> some reason suddenly all third party sources would be "banned"?
>
> Are you suggesting to remove data that has resulted from the above
> activities,

No, I am not

  or are you just trying to paint a hypothetical "OSM without
> imports" picture?

Yes, more or less. Given that some people seem to be strongly arguing 
that the use of third party data is "crap", "mindless" and "harmful", I 
would like to get a feel for how "bad" the situation is and where there 
are still "happy, undisturbed" communities left

Kai

>
> Bye
> Frederik
>




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