[OSM-talk] Default policy on automated edits

[Phil! Gold]

* Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com> [2011-05-21 11:49 +0100]:
> I was recently having a discussion about the role of automated imports
> and other automated edits to our dataset.
> 
> I think we need a simple, concise position statement on the issue.
> 
> This video concisely summarizes my view on the issue and I suggest we
> adopt it as our official default policy:
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb2Pzl1U0sY

You posted this at about the same time I found and was considering an
import of landuse data for Baltimore City.  Unfortunately for me, the
quality of the city's shapefile data was not at all up to the quality
standard of OpenStreetMap, which only adds support to your position.

I wrote a little about this on my diary:

  http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/asciiphil/diary/13891

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