I get this perspective. But I also find the standards to be onerous. They were honestly fine until this one:

> Contact the relevant local communities affected by the contributions

Do I literally have to do new local community outreach every little town one of my bookcases shows up in? Ridiculous if so

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Aurornis 15 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Refers to OSM communities, not the literal physical local communities offline.

If every contribution required community outreach, we wouldn’t see any contributions.

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Doctor_Fegg an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Generally this means “national” and the sub-board on the OSM discussion forum.

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SOLAR_FIELDS an hour ago | parent [-]

Okay, that’s slightly more reasonable it means if I’m going to be rolling stuff back into OSM in a new country I should at least have a quick chat and ensure what I’m doing abides by that country’s regulations etc like South Korea has some notorious law around data residency

	▲	ponorin 25 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> South Korea has some notorious law around data residency if you're talking about the export restrictions of map data, that only applies to official, government-managed geodata. OSM explicitly doesn't rely on any other maps, so the law doesn't apply.