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

[Toby Murray]

Well if you are willing to wait a week or two, I might be able to shed
some light on the issue.

I decided to take a cartography course this semester. One of our
projects is to create a thematic map of our choosing and I was hoping
to make one related to OSM. I just started playing with osmosis last
night to get a planet import working so I could do some analysis of
bots/imports vs manual edits. Not having looked at the data yet I'm
not sure how to go about detecting whether a given object was imported
or added by hand. Hopefully over the next week I will get a chance to
look at things a little. If I come up with anything interesting I will
be sure to share it here :)

Toby


On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> 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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