[OSM-talk] Zero tolerance on imports

[Fabio Alessandro Locati]

Have you considered that the goal of OSM is creating a free (as
speach) map of the whole world... I think your view is not so close to
the project goal..

2011/3/6, Russ Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com>:
> Peter Budny writes:
>  > I find this discussion very distasteful.
>
> That's because nobody is talking about the REAL
> solution. OpenStreetMap is the place for user-edited volunteered
> geographic information. It's NOT the place for importing information
> which would be nonsensical if a user edited it.
>
> The REAL solution is to have a ClosedStreetMap.org, which publishes
> data in the same format under the same license using the same tag set
> using the same API as OpenStreetMap, only it publishes read-only data.
> Some of the imports that I've done (NYC bike racks, NYS DEC lands, and
> NYS State Parks, which I'm currently working on), the data is
> maintained elsewhere. It useful to have for OpenStreetMap users, but
> not for OpenStreetMap editors. Why? Because for at least the last two,
> the boundaries are off in the middle of sometimes very dense woods,
> are not necessarily marked by signs, if signs are present they are not
> authoritative, and the original source of the data is a legal
> description, and no hand editing can change that.
>
> So take all these data sets, and their transformative programs, create
> .osm files out of them, and throw them into a database. When you get
> updates, rebuild the database.
>
> There's a few problems with the idea, e.g. what if somebody adds
> something to OSM that's already in CSM? Or, what if the data, although
> published from an authoritative source, is dirty? How does OSM
> override data in CSM?
>
> But I think there are fewer problems than the current system of one
> person dumping in megabytes for which there is no practical means of
> updating with another import.
>
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