[OSM-talk] Import guidelines review

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 06/06/2012 02:59 PM, Tobias Knerr wrote:
> So I agree with Frederik that we should evaluate imports for their
> impact on the community. I also feel that "make available instead of
> import" is a good way to ensure that a) there is a local community to
> maintain the data and b) that local community is fine with the import.

A note of caution though; in France, the approach "make available 
instead if import" has been tried for buildings as far as I know, and it 
has lead to a very small number of people taking the data that was "made 
available" and importing it all over the place, with essentially the 
same results as a standard "empty the bucket" import - lots of buildings 
in places where no mappers are.

So, even if the person who procures the data and makes it available for 
the community to import does everything right, there's still the 
potential for community members to fuck it up ;)

Bye
Frederik

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