Re: [openrailwaymap] [Imports] Thoughts about importing a whole country's (NL) railway data
Hi!
I myself (one of the developers of OpenRailwayMap) am against
importing
railway data. OpenStreetMap is not a 0-Euro data center for geodata. OSM
is a project where /people/ collect data and care for it.
Because the Netherlands already have mapped railway lines, you have to
preserve the objects' history if you import railway data. This makes an
mechanical import is nearly impossible.
So, instead of having good data in openstreetmap, we keep bad data, because
they have "history"?
We should aim to have best available data in openstreetmap.
Pavel
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