[OSM-talk] What to call OSM data?

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2012/11/26 Joseph Reeves <iknowjoseph at gmail.com>:
>>I think crowdsourced is accurate.
>
> Playing Devil's Advocate, "crowdsourced" isn't appropriate for large swathes
> of OSM data: Europe, for example, is dominated by imported, not
> crowdsourced, CORINE data.
>
> I'd describe OSM data simply as "open".


I'd like to point out that even though your claim might be true in
terms of quantity (didn't check that but have my doubts too, because
there are far more road ways in the db than landuse) there are many
countries which didn't import CORINE, Germany and Italy for instance
(I think also UK)

cheers,
Martin