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

Mikel Maron mikel.maron at gmail.com
Fri Mar 20 21:14:59 UTC 2020


> Today's blog posts are the press releases of past years. It would have been quite possible to run it past the responsible organs of the organisation they were writing about, as it would have been customary in earlier days.

Good enough idea, but I have seen very few or even no examples of someone asking OSMF about a PR/blog beforehand, nor the OSMF asking for that. Not a bad idea to change expectations around this.

-Mikel

* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron






On Friday, March 20, 2020, 04:43:28 PM EDT, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote: 






Am 20.03.2020 um 20:00 schrieb Mikel Maron:
>>   But this thread is from Facebook trying to change that. To side step imports.
> No they're not. It's a couple sections in a blog post that is being wildly misinterpreted.

Today's blog posts are the press releases of past years. It would have
been quite possible to run it past the responsible organs of the
organisation they were writing about, as it would have been customary in
earlier days.

Simon


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> On Friday, March 20, 2020, 02:18:54 PM EDT, Rory McCann <rory at technomancy.org> wrote: 
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>> This whole thread is blown out of proportion, and rehashing old 
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> Yes, we have an import guideline. But this thread is from Facebook 
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> BTW the Etiqutte guidelines require you to assume all people here are 
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