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

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Kai Krueger wrote:
> 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", 

... among them myself, as you probably have noticed ...

> I would like to get a feel for how "bad" the situation is and where there 
> are still "happy, undisturbed" communities left

Well there will certainly be lots of places with NO imports and also NO 
community but I don't think that would disprove the theory ;)

Why not do it the other way round - identify places with a vibrant OSM 
community, then see if they've had any major imports. I might be stating 
the obvious but OSM community is certainly vibrant in most places in 
Germany, and imports have certainly played a negligible role in the data 
we have.

Bye
Frederik

PS: I don't think the US is going to be a wasteland in terms of OSM 
community forever. I just think that without the TIGER import they'd 
have less data but much more community today. Then again I'm happy to 
admit that at the time the import was done, I thought it was a splendid 
idea, along with most others in the project probably - so it would be 
totally unfair to blame anyone who worked hard on getting that import done.

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