[Geodata] wiki-nature geodata aggregators

Martin Spott Martin.Spott at mgras.net
Sat Jul 25 11:57:01 EDT 2009


Jo Walsh wrote:

> "It would be nice" to see a data quality push - not in terms of
> comparison to proprietary sources, but in terms of peer review and of
> spreading, well, quality assurance, through the network back up to
> original data providers. How to do this without bureaucratic overhead
> (or while funding bureaucratic overhead)? Answers on a postcard...

No idea, as the conceptual 'design' behind all these data providers
requires their sources to be "authoritative" in some way - a criteria
that is unlikely to be met by any effort which relies primarily on
crowdsourcing  :-)

Cheers,
	Martin.
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