Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-21 Thread Simon Poole
Am 20.09.2012 22:38, schrieb Christian Rogel: So, as we have a DWG a making tremendous efforts for maintaining a good policy for the data (including the boring chase of proprietary ones), it may happen and it will happen more and more that a projected decision exceed the field of the data

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-21 Thread Pieren
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: I believe one of the issues here is the categorization of the separate account requirement as political, when I suspect most would see it as a purely administrative/technical matter and the textual change as a clarification

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-20 Thread Marc SIBERT
2012/9/19 Michael Kugelmann michaelk_...@gmx.de On 19.09.2012 11:22, Christian Quest wrote: We're voting proposed tag scheme. ... or not. Frequently nowadays a new value or scheme is invented w/o voting. No statement by myself whether I think this is good process or not... So these

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-20 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
On jeudi 20 septembre 2012, Marc SIBERT wrote: The complete ignorance of any contact (threre have been two or three tries) was the reason for the (short term) block, not the disregard of the guidelines. In fact I *did* answer twice, in March September. I explain my point of view and the

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-20 Thread Lester Caine
sly (sylvain letuffe) wrote: We can get back to the topic of governance and discussion about those laws and who decide them, and how. Or just get back to fixing the process in the first place? SO we have less chance of misinterpreting the 'guidelines'? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-20 Thread Christian Rogel
Le 20 sept. 2012 à 13:22, Lester Caine a écrit : sly (sylvain letuffe) wrote: We can get back to the topic of governance and discussion about those laws and who decide them, and how. Or just get back to fixing the process in the first place? SO we have less chance of misinterpreting the

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-20 Thread Simon Poole
I believe there is some misunderstanding of the relationship between OSM and OSMF. Am 20.09.2012 16:36, schrieb Christian Rogel: Le 20 sept. 2012 à 13:22, Lester Caine a écrit : sly (sylvain letuffe) wrote: We can get back to the topic of governance and discussion about those laws and who

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-20 Thread Lester Caine
Simon Poole wrote: Yes, the development in the area of Open Data poses a serious challenge to OSM. I suspect that the attitude of large parts of the community is that OGD is a good thing, however I'm also fairly sure that there is no community consensus that OSM should aspire to import

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-20 Thread Christian Rogel
Le 20 sept. 2012 à 18:59, Simon Poole a écrit : . While a more top down organisation of OSM a la Wikipedia or other organisations is imaginable, there has never been a community consensus that such a step would be desirable (if anything it is exactly the opposite). So while the OSMF

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2012-09-19 05:36, Willi wrote: I really don't like the attitude expressed by several people here in response to this subject and which is already contained in the subject itself OSMF/DWG governance. Governance. There's no governance. DWG is a group and everybody is free to join it. The

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Pieren wrote: The one who never made a mistake in JOSM can be the first to throw a stone. *waves* cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Import-guidelines-OSMF-DWG-governance-tp5725810p5726047.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Cartinus
On 09/19/2012 01:58 AM, Marc Sibert wrote: That's why we need of help of the machines... asta la vista, baby ! No, that is why you need more contributors. Preferably those who know what is actually there in reality. Not people who only remotely map stuff from secondary sources. -- --- m.v.g.,

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Lester Caine
Pieren wrote: Finally, he decided that the best solution to clean-up the mess was to delete the previous buildings dataset and import the new one. But again, his first intention was to upload the delta only. I will be the first to admit to being a little lax in adding comments to my commits,

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread guiguid
complaining about the quality of his imports. The user was contacted, he didn't react as I understood. There for he was short time blocked. That's a very fair and fine reaction from the DWG. The user was not banned or something, just blocked for short time to gain his attention. And: why

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 09/19/2012 12:38 AM, Christian Quest wrote: For me a mandatory rule on which someone bases a block decision must be something decided publicly and shared with the community, and clearly published/announced... and none of these has taken place here. Are you saying that we should have

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Lester Caine
guig...@free.fr wrote: Please show me that I'm making jugement mistake, and show me that our work, after beeing uncertain by licence, isn't threatened by centralistic, autoritative, english only person who can set live or dead by non community based decisions. There is a lot of good support

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Christian Quest
2012/9/19 Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net Pieren wrote: The one who never made a mistake in JOSM can be the first to throw a stone. *waves* cheers Richard Richard ! As you're joining this topic, can you explain why you changed the guidelines in the wiki to make the dedicated

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Christian Quest
2012/9/19 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org Hi, On 09/19/2012 12:38 AM, Christian Quest wrote: For me a mandatory rule on which someone bases a block decision must be something decided publicly and shared with the community, and clearly published/announced... and none of these has taken

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Pieren
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Are you saying that we should have had a vote on the wiki, or what? Who would have been eligible to vote? And are you at the same time saying that changing a policy on the wiki is not clearly published? To progress a

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Christian Quest wrote: As you're joining this topic, can you explain why you changed the guidelines in the wiki to make the dedicated account a requirement and not a recommendation anymore ? As a few people have already said (Michael, Frederik, Simon etc.) this was basically codifying

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
On 19/09/2012 12:04, Richard Fairhurst wrote: [..] Thanks for the level-headed recapitulation - looks like we are moving forward. Firstly, the status of the import guidelines needs to become less ambiguous. At present we have three largely overlapping policies ('Mechanical Edit Policy',

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Lester Caine
Pieren wrote: But let the local community decides when and who. And for that, we need to contact people in their speaking language, not in English, either through a local representative or e.g. standard messages previously translated. Then check with the local community if or what goes wrong

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/9/18 Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org: On 09/18/2012 05:42 PM, Simon Poole wrote: The French cadastre imports are, as you know, a rather controversial subject. In my opinion it is a dataset that doesn't actually increase the usefulness of the OSM dataset for most users (building

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Lester Caine
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: The French cadastre imports are, as you know, a rather controversial subject. In my opinion it is a dataset that doesn't actually increase the usefulness of the OSM dataset for most users (building outlines without addresses just don't really help with anything)

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/9/19 Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org: the cadastre integration process represents such an amount of manual processing that some of those who did it took understandable personal offense that their work could be seen as just another botched mass import. If their input can be taken into

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/9/19 Pieren pier...@gmail.com: The size of the whole French cadastre dataset is huge. We could upload it in a single mass import with a bot using a seperate user account as we did for the Corine Land Cover. We could follow 100% of the import guidelines. Trust me, we have all the

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 19/09/2012 16:23, Martin Koppenhoefer a écrit : 2012/9/19 Pieren pier...@gmail.com: The size of the whole French cadastre dataset is huge. We could upload it in a single mass import with a bot using a seperate user account as we did for the Corine Land Cover. We could follow 100% of the

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/9/19 Vincent Pottier vpott...@gmail.com: Les données du cadastre ne peuvent former à elles seules les données OSM. Ce qui interdit un import massif, direct et automatique It means : You cannot make a map with only data from cadastre. You can only mix them with other data. Yes, and the

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Michael Kugelmann
On 19.09.2012 09:05, guig...@free.fr wrote: Perhaps, because the user doesn't understand English please use google translate or any other translating tool available on the web or use a printed dictionary or ... Best regards, Michael. ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Michael Kugelmann
On 19.09.2012 12:04, Richard Fairhurst wrote: As a few people have already said [...] cheers Richard applause for this comment! And to clarify it already now: there is no irony behind this statement. Best regards, Michael. ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Eric Marsden
th == Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu writes: ecm account block. But historical information such as the number of ecm blocks imposed per week are missing AFAICT (allows people to ecm monitor for admin abuse). th It should be pretty obvious from browsing the block list: th th

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-19 Thread Michael Kugelmann
On 19.09.2012 11:22, Christian Quest wrote: We're voting proposed tag scheme. ... or not. Frequently nowadays a new value or scheme is invented w/o voting. No statement by myself whether I think this is good process or not... So these hard rules are coming from nowhere ? There's no process

[OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Christian Quest
On Sept. 15, a french OSM contributor has been blocked because he was not following the dedicated account for import described in the Import Guidelines (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/238). There was nothing armful for the data, community or the whole project is these changesets. This

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Mike Dupont
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Christian Quest cqu...@openstreetmap.fr wrote: I'd like to have some answers because after searching the wiki, the OSMF web site and the imports@ mailing-list archives, I could not find any (public) discussion about the newly required dedicated account. Hi, I

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/9/18 Christian Quest cqu...@openstreetmap.fr: My questions are: - Who decided this change (recommendation - requirement) ? - What has been the process that lead to this major change ? not sure about this, but I definitely support the decision, because it was a real problem in the past

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: not sure about this, but I definitely support the decision, because it was a real problem in the past when imports could not easily be distinguished from individual and original contributions. Excepted that in

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/9/18 Pieren pier...@gmail.com: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: not sure about this, but I definitely support the decision, because it was a real problem in the past when imports could not easily be distinguished from individual and

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Mike N
On 9/18/2012 7:51 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: well, not sure where this comes from and if it makes sense: I don't see a real obstacle as email addresses are not a scarse ressource (you get as many as you like for free), but I agree that it seems to be better to allow the same email address

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: How does it help for distinguishing imports from original contributions to have many small areas or small feature sets or many small changesets? What might help is a uniform changeset comment or component.

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, I welcome a discussion about rules - which ones we need, who makes them, who executes them. It is clear that we need *some* rules, but until now there's no formal community process to create or amend such rules. I'm happy to hear any suggestions that people might have. How can the

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Vincent Privat
2012/9/18 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com I'd put it like this: someone who didn't respect the import guidelines valid for almost one year was temporarily blocked. What's the problem? That's what the DWG is for. Really ? According to [1]: The *Data Working Group*

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 18/09/2012 13:42, Vincent Privat wrote: What happened on 15th september looks like an abuse of authority to me, as this largely exceeds the limits of the mandate given to the DWG. I expect a clarification from the OSMF board on this point. OK, if we're playing WikiLawyer pissing games, the

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 18/09/2012 13:51, Martin Koppenhoefer a écrit : I'd put it like this: someone who didn't respect the import guidelines valid for almost one year was temporarily blocked. What's the problem? That's what the DWG is for. how many have spoken up against it? I'd expect from every mapper who

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Jonathan Bennett openstreet...@jonno.cix.co.uk wrote: On 18/09/2012 13:42, Vincent Privat wrote: OK, if we're playing WikiLawyer pissing games, the statement about DWG's power says authorised, not limited to. Part of DWG's remit is to deal with disputes, and

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Mike Dupont
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Vincent Pottier vpott...@gmail.com wrote: Now that I (and not only me) know that the guidelines are subjects of arbitrary changes without a wide announce, I would read this page each time before i'm importing a postbox from opendata ? But look, you found the

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Simon Poole
The changes to the guidelines should be seen in the light of the original text being very OSMish, trying to leave some wiggle room and trying not to come over as an absolute law, but I believe the intention was always that seperate accounts would be the norm. In reality a large number of

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: The user had been contacted by DWG beforehand because he had imported several millions of objects under his account, Sounds as a mass, uncontrolled import but is not. This user is very active and well known in the

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: The licence change process in particular turned up a large number of (problematic and others) imports where the importers washed their hands of their responsibility and left the clean up work to others. The imports during the

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Christian Quest
2012/9/18 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: Just to clarify this one point: The user had been contacted by DWG beforehand because he had imported several millions of objects under his account, and asked to continue his work in accordance with the import guidelines, using a separate import

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Lester Caine
Pieren wrote: DWG does also not usually require people to use a separete import account if they are doing small imports (even though the policy does not mention an exception for small imports). This, however, was orders of magnitude above small. What is the difference between one small import

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Now if there is a substantial set of data available which we are allowed to import then that data should be available ... as an overlay or some other way ... such as the OS data is available as overlays we can trace from.

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Lester Caine
Pieren wrote: Now if there is a substantial set of data available which we are allowed to import then that data should be available ... as an overlay or some other way ... such as the OS data is available as overlays we can trace from. Seriously, if OS opens the shapefiles of all detailed

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Pierre Béland
De : Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk À : OSM talk@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Mardi 18 septembre 2012 10h24 Objet : Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance Pieren wrote: DWG does also not usually require people to use a separete import account

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Simon Poole
Am 18.09.2012 15:55, schrieb Pieren: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: The licence change process in particular turned up a large number of (problematic and others) imports where the importers washed their hands of their responsibility and left the clean up

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Christian Quest
We've drifted from a question about governance to a talk about usefulness of some kind of data in OSM which is something completely relative and personal. As far as I know, DWG doesn't exist to deal with usefulness of data nor quality of contributions, but copyright infringement, vandalism and

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Lester Caine
Pierre Béland wrote: I have often seen such arguments against imports. In Canada also, there are contributors talking agains Canvec imports and saying we should have more fun tracing from GPS. We have to analyze the problems more seriously and find solutions to them. A great work is done in

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Pierre Béland
2012-09-18 Simon Poole si...@poole.ch The question of (for example of an operational problem) communication to active mappers is a technical problem that we will have to address at one point in time. Either by assuring that the e-mail address remains valid or by other technical means.

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Pierre Béland infosbelas-...@yahoo.fr wrote: There are more then 500,000 contributors. How many do you think know about the DWG group and follow his guidelines? Those who aren't aware, and are contacted by DWG, generally switch to an import account when they

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: The French cadastre imports are, as you know, a rather controversial subject. In my opinion it is a dataset that doesn't actually increase the usefulness of the OSM dataset for most users (building outlines without addresses

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Pierre Béland
2012-09-18 Lester Caine lester at lsces.co.uk Pierre - I'm not arguing against imports. Only unmanaged ones and ones we do not have easy access to the source data. As I understand it you can view the canvec data, but is it available as an overlay in an editor? That is the part of the jigsaw

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Pierre Béland
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: The French cadastre imports are, as you know, a rather controversial subject. In my opinion it is a dataset that doesn't actually increase the usefulness of the OSM dataset for most users (building outlines without addresses

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Kai Krueger
Hello, I don't know anything about the particular import that originated this question, and so I don't know if the following arguments specifically apply, but I do want to comment on the issue of requiring a separate account for imports. IMHO, the issue is about licensing. The contributor terms

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Christian Rogel
Blocking a very respected contributor without prior discussion is a major fail in the governance of the OSMF. I assume that the thing was not really foreseen and a loose lead was put on the DWG group. Everyone understands that the Board is overbooked and it could have be seen more easy

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Lester Caine
Pierre Béland wrote: Pierre - I'm not arguing against imports. Only unmanaged ones and ones we do not have easy access to the source data. As I understand it you can view the canvec data, but is it available as an overlay in an editor? That is the part of the jigsaw that I'd like to see

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Grant Slater
On 18 September 2012 18:13, Christian Rogel christian.ro...@club-internet.fr wrote: Blocking a very respected contributor without prior discussion is a major fail in the governance of the OSMF. The user was messaged on 3 separate occasions between 22 March 2012 and 14 September 2012, asking

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Eric SIBERT
DWG != OSMF. ??? Éric ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread guillaume
Hi, I'm in the same case of Vincent Pottier except I has blocked without disscusion, by a very autoritative admin my fault : I've not create a decated account for importing localized area . But I've read the french wiki ! But I've read the import guideline ( it's not a massive import) ! But

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: On 18 September 2012 18:13, Christian Rogel The initial message on the 22 March 2012 and follow-ups pointed to the guidelines ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines ) which include that imports

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen
Just guess who controls the servers and domain name ? -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Pieren [mailto:pier...@gmail.com] Verzonden: dinsdag 18 september 2012 19:56 Aan: OSM Onderwerp: Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Grant Slater

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Paul Norman
From: Christian Quest [mailto:cqu...@openstreetmap.fr] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 7:11 AM To: Frederik Ramm Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance 2012/9/18 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: Just to clarify this one point

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 18/09/12 at 18:29 +0100, Grant Slater wrote: OSM is not unique, wikipedia too require a dedicated account for bots. I don't think calling people robots is going to contribute to improving the atmosphere. If the cadastre integration was done with scripts, it would be long done, wouldn't it?

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 18/09/12 at 17:42 +0200, Simon Poole wrote: (yes I have heard all the stories about everything being manually checked etc, if you believe that, I have a couple of bridges that I would like to sell to you). So you are blocking one user because other users working on similar stuff (cadastre

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Toby Murray
I have seen enough bad imports (and put significant effort into cleaning some of them up) that I like the guidelines and wish more people would follow them. Even if each individual clause may be a slight inconvenience or not entirely necessary for a particular import, I think it is worth having

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Simon Poole
Am 18.09.2012 18:04, schrieb Christian Quest: We've drifted from a question about governance to a talk about usefulness of some kind of data in OSM which is something completely relative and personal. As I pointed out, usefulness of the data is outside the scope of this discussion. As far

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen
guidelines OSMF/DWG governance From: Christian Quest [mailto:cqu...@openstreetmap.fr] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 7:11 AM To: Frederik Ramm Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance 2012/9/18 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: Just

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Pierre Béland
Pierre And about governance,  if this community cannot manage his contributors, who can?  We continually have new mappers, some working more or less intensively. We should adapt or organization to this Wikipedia like structure and try to better structure local communities. I certainly

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Eric Marsden
pb == Pierre Béland infosbelas-...@yahoo.fr writes: pb Simon, this discussion was started to discuss about governance. We pb only see examples of problematic imports. But the question we pb should look at is how we can better tune or multinational / pb multicultural organization to

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Simon Poole
Am 18.09.2012 18:54, schrieb Béland Pierre: Is it possible to discuss about governance wich is the subject of this thread? The reason I even touched on this subject is that each time the cadastre imports turn up it is somehow claimed that they are different from other imports and should be

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 18.09.2012 20:34, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: So you are blocking one user because other users working on similar stuff (cadastre integration) did not work correctly? The user was not blocked because others did not work correctly. He was blocked - for 24 hours - because he did not adhere to

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Lester Caine
Pieren wrote: OSM is not unique, wikipedia too require a dedicated account for bots. The uploads we are talking are normally done with JOSM after the integration with the existing data and validation. If it is performed with a script, then it's a bad import done by one of the black sheeps

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 18.09.2012 18:04, Christian Quest wrote: Still no answer to my main original questions: - who decided the import guidelines ? It is a policy that has grown gradually. Just like other things in OSM have - you'll not find anything about a vote for highway=motorway on the Wiki either.

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Marc Sibert
Le 18/09/2012 19:29, Grant Slater a écrit : On 18 September 2012 18:13, Christian Rogel christian.ro...@club-internet.fr wrote: Blocking a very respected contributor without prior discussion is a major fail in the governance of the OSMF. The user was messaged on 3 separate occasions between

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Lester Caine
Frederik Ramm wrote: But if the work of one person surpasses the million-object mark then is that still a small-scale import? How much time does it take to review carefully a million objects? Is it possible that a simple JOSM did not report anything obvious takes the place of the careful review?

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Marc Sibert
Le 18/09/2012 21:38, Frederik Ramm a écrit : Hi, ... But if the work of one person surpasses the million-object mark then is that still a small-scale import? How much time does it take to review carefully a million objects? Is it possible that a simple JOSM did not report anything obvious

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Lester Caine
Marc Sibert wrote: I thing the point is not why my account was blocked, but why someone have the right to block an account and whatfor ? The road is the place between the buildings... so I need the buildings : Cadastre data are usefull (fully). All points of the guideline are wrong : no

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Pierre Béland
.  And obviously, it is quite difficult to have the OSMF groups accept adressing this problem.   Pierre De : Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org À : talk@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Mardi 18 septembre 2012 15h38 Objet : Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: It is a policy that has grown gradually. Just like other things in OSM have - you'll not find anything about a vote for highway=motorway on the Wiki either. Perhaps this policy has reached its limits. And honnestly, you

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Marc Sibert
Le 18/09/2012 22:17, Lester Caine a écrit : Marc Sibert wrote: I thing the point is not why my account was blocked, but why someone have the right to block an account and whatfor ? The road is the place between the buildings... so I need the buildings : Cadastre data are usefull (fully).

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Marc Sibert m...@sibert.fr wrote: I'm still not agree with this policy : I do not ignore your messages. You don't agree? You created your import account, I think? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
On 09/18/2012 08:36 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 18/09/12 at 18:29 +0100, Grant Slater wrote: OSM is not unique, wikipedia too require a dedicated account for bots. I don't think calling people robots is going to contribute to improving the atmosphere. If the cadastre integration was done

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: You don't agree? You created your import account, I think? After a block !? Wow, what a victory ! Who is next ? Marc needed an access to the database because he is uploading surveyed data collected remotely by another

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
On 09/18/2012 05:42 PM, Simon Poole wrote: The French cadastre imports are, as you know, a rather controversial subject. In my opinion it is a dataset that doesn't actually increase the usefulness of the OSM dataset for most users (building outlines without addresses just don't really help

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Marc Sibert
Le 18/09/2012 22:56, Richard Weait a écrit : On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Marc Sibert m...@sibert.fr wrote: I'm still not agree with this policy : I do not ignore your messages. You don't agree? You created your import account, I think? LOL ! yes I need to continue to contribute (adict

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Lester Caine
Marc Sibert wrote: Again, I'm not a vandal : I do not detroy any work (and nobody complains about that), I just update data (replace), that is not the point why my account was blocked ! So, what have you done in my case ? It is your opinion that you have not destroyed any work, but this is

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Toby Murray
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Eric Marsden eric.mars...@free.fr wrote: - Openness/transparency. OSMF working groups are notoriously opaque, though some have improved over the last year by posting open minutes of meetings (which requires significant effort and which I

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
Marc, On 18.09.2012 21:53, Marc Sibert wrote: I thing the point is not why my account was blocked, but why someone have the right to block an account and whatfor ? I think that we need import guidelines, and we need people who can block those who don't follow the guidelines, otherwise having

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 18/09/2012 21:13, Simon Poole a écrit : Am 18.09.2012 18:54, schrieb Béland Pierre: Is it possible to discuss about governance wich is the subject of this thread? The reason I even touched on this subject is that each time the cadastre imports turn up it is somehow claimed that they are

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Marc Sibert
Le 18/09/2012 23:24, Lester Caine a écrit : Marc Sibert wrote: Again, I'm not a vandal : I do not detroy any work (and nobody complains about that), I just update data (replace), that is not the point why my account was blocked ! So, what have you done in my case ? It is your opinion that

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Pierre Béland
...@gmail.com À : talk@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Mardi 18 septembre 2012 17h28 Objet : Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Eric Marsden eric.mars...@free.fr wrote:     - Openness/transparency. OSMF working groups are notoriously opaque

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines OSMF/DWG governance

2012-09-18 Thread Lester Caine
Marc Sibert wrote: It is your opinion that you have not destroyed any work, but this is one of the major complaints about this type of import process. STOP ! I do not read you after this sentence (I will do it after writing this answer). Now that you have read the rest of the message what is

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