[OSM-talk] OSM is not the place for dissemination of authoritative data sets

[Christoph Hormann]

On Thursday 19 March 2020, Mikel Maron wrote:
> Frederik, you’re crying out against phantoms, and getting stuck on
> one interpretation of the word “authoritative”, and using that
> misinterpretation as an excuse to beat on one of your favorite
> punching bags, and try to exact radical unrational restrictions on a
> piece of software. What Facebook is saying here is that RapiD can
> make the technical part of the import process easier. It’s a well
> done conflation process that has every single new feature
> individually examined by a mapper. There is nothing here about
> circumventing our well defined import guidelines, or disrespecting
> our basic tenets. It’s just your imagination.

I am not quite sure if you actually believe that or if this is a cold 
blooded (though obviously rather crude) attempt to gaslight Frederik.

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Christoph Hormann
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