[OSM-talk] Quality and the Openstreetmap value chain

Jean-Marc Liotier jm at liotier.org
Wed May 13 15:04:41 UTC 2020


On 5/12/20 3:50 PM, Colin Smale wrote:
> The role I expect of the data consumers is to articulate how they 
> would like to view the data (including what attributes they are 
> expecting), and not to dictate how that data is stored/represented 
> internally. Cartography, geography, statistics etc are very different 
> skills to data modelling and database design.

Indeed, technical implementations take functional requirements into 
account but have many other inputs and a different class of actors. 
Consumers, tell us what you want - not how to do it ! Same as any 
software project...


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