Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Thread Lester Caine
ThomasB wrote: Hang on, you've got this completely wrong. . Seems what you mean and what you wrote differ somehow Richard Fairhurst wrote And no - this isn't intended to hit restoring a single way via P1 (while it still exists) or whatever. But I read it so. Also selecting 10 buildings

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ThomasB wrote: Seems what you mean and what you wrote differ somehow I'm not sure where you read the extra requirement for discussion or bureaucracy in what I wrote. Could you clarify? But I read it so. Also selecting 10 buildings in JOSM and pressing Q would fall below your proposal

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Thread Jochen Topf
, 2012 at 11:36:51PM +0200, Eric Marsden wrote: Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:36:51 +0200 From: Eric Marsden eric.mars...@free.fr To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines Thank you for making this constructive proposal. My feeling is that it would

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Thread THEVENON Julien
De : Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk Hi Lester I do get the impression that the Cadastre import has it's own rules on how to use it, and those are only available in French, which irritates. You mean you would appreciate a translation of French Cadastre wiki page ? But it does need to

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Thread Eric Marsden
jt == Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org writes: jt I think there is a misunderstandig here. You seem to suggest that according to jt those new guidelines you are supposed to import the data with one account and jt then in a second step fix things with the normal account. This is not the

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Thread Richard Mann
I think the distinction between mechanical and manual needs to be fleshed out a bit. To me manual implies a degree of care to other data (relative location of existing objects, links to other objects, existing versions of the same or related objects, other tags, consideration of the quality of the

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Thread Peter Wendorff
Am 26.09.2012 10:30, schrieb THEVENON Julien: * De :* Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk Hi Lester * *I do get the impression that the Cadastre import has it's own rules on how to use it, and those are only available in French, which irritates. You mean you would appreciate a translation of

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Thread Lester Caine
THEVENON Julien wrote: * *I do get the impression that the Cadastre import has it's own rules on how to use it, and those are only available in French, which irritates. You mean you would appreciate a translation of French Cadastre wiki page ? That has been a previous request :) The google

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Thread Lester Caine
Richard Mann wrote: But the principle that changesets should have a licence tag where that's clear/available is a sensible one. As is the message keep your changesets at human-scale or set up a separate account. Tagging the change set is against the data source is a must. But I think that a

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 26.09.2012 10:13, Richard Fairhurst wrote: I'm not sure where you read the extra requirement for discussion or bureaucracy in what I wrote. Could you clarify? Discussion and bureaucracy requirements exist for automated/mechanical edits according to the policy pages you would like to see

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tordanik wrote: If you want to address changes performed by scripts/bots, then why don't you just say so explicitly and avoid any potential misunderstandings? Because it's not just about scripts and bots. The Cadastre situation, which started all of this off, is often people loading .osm

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Thread THEVENON Julien
De : Peter Wendorff wendo...@uni-paderborn.de Yes, it is part of the import process, as it's the main preparation of the import. When we import a list of facilities we get from a third party, e.g. the fuel station import last year, most of the time the raw data is not fitting to osm

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Thread Lester Caine
Richard Fairhurst wrote: It doesn't actually make any difference to me personally - I only_use_ OSM data for the UK, where we don't have imports Yet ;) I want to get the border layer stuff working directly from the import rather than 'importing' it piecemeal into the base data ... -- Lester

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Thread THEVENON Julien
De : Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net Because it's not just about scripts and bots. The Cadastre situation, which started all of this off, is often people loading .osm files into JOSM, running a quick validator check over it, and uploading. In terms of impact on the map and on the

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Thread Jason Cunningham
On 26 September 2012 11:02, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: - I only _use_ OSM data for the UK, where we don't have imports, and I'm not on DWG so I don't have to deal with the angry mails. I'm simply trying to help and getting hostile doesn't really encourage that.) Richard

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Thread Paul Norman
From: Richard Fairhurst [mailto:rich...@systemed.net] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 3:02 AM To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines Tordanik wrote: If you want to address changes performed by scripts/bots, then why don't you just say so

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Thread THEVENON Julien
De : Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk That has been a previous request :) The google translation is a little strange. OK I was not aware about that And if we can automate that process it would help you? The add of source tag is already automatic I'm just repeating things that were being

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Thread Lester Caine
THEVENON Julien wrote: Clean cadastre integration is a process that take quite a long time when done correctly and that could not be automated, that's why it has been decided to not perform a national automated import like CLC but rather to rely on contributors which do that city by city But

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Thread THEVENON Julien
De : THEVENON Julien julien_theve...@yahoo.fr You can have cadastre has overlay in JOSM using french cadastre plugin. If you want to perform the test on Saint Galmier you will have to install the plugin in JOSM, restart JOSM. Change the projection to Lambert 9 zones and choose Lambert CC

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Thread THEVENON Julien
De : Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk But I'm still not clear if that is done of a properly geo-referenced overlay/layer? The initial automatic process would be creating that layer although I would accept that keeping historic versions is something that could be a cost that nobody will cover?

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Thread Lester Caine
THEVENON Julien wrote: The corresponding processed data that you can find on http://cadastre.openstreetmap.fr/data/ are those data downloaded in PDF format processed by a C++ script that analyse geometrical forms and colours to extract buildings, railways, rivers and produced separated OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-26 Thread THEVENON Julien
De : Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk Sees the light :) Great ! SO while we have this type of raster data from as a background in potlatch and josm and some elements of it in vector files from OS and other sources. You are having to stitch together 'pictures' and then your 'automatic

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-25 Thread Petr Morávek [Xificurk]
Richard Fairhurst wrote: bot_source_licence=machine-readable licence name ... - encouraging a machine-readable licence tag helps to avoid the issues identifying changesets that were encountered in the redaction. I don't like the name of this tag, it seems ambiguous. From it's name I would

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-25 Thread Christian Quest
I think the additional tags on the changeset are a good approach... and when used properly they make the dedicated account useless (whatever the size of the changeset) as they provide much more details. The API could even reject changesets that are above a given size if these tags are not

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-25 Thread Jochen Topf
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 06:11:35PM +0100, Richard Fairhurst wrote: [...] An 'automated edit' is one where the editing is not carried out by manual drawing actions. This includes (but is not limited to): - imports of external data - search-and-replace tag changes - automated geometry fixup

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-25 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
I like this proposal - from my very personal point of view it safeguards all the conflicting interests and reaffirms essential inflexible principles while cutting some slack to users who perform small local imports : The bot=yes tag identifies the import as such, to help moderators focus on that

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-25 Thread Lester Caine
Jochen Topf wrote: I think it is rather difficult do exactly define what an automated edit is and what not. And trying to define this better and better is just an invitation to language lawyers to argue about minutiae. I've deliberately take this out of context because I'm beginning to see

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-25 Thread Paul Norman
My main machine is down at the moment so this isn't as detailed as I'd like, but I have a few thoughts.On Sep 25, 2012, at 10:11 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote:A propos of the recent contretemps about Cadastre imports and separate accounts (excessive use of French in this

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-25 Thread Tobias Knerr
I'm worried about the ongoing push to extend the reach of rules originally designed (and supported by the community) for imports and scripts to actions initiated by human mappers using editor software. Even though your mail's subject mentions import guidelines, your proposed text switches to the

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-25 Thread Eric Marsden
Thank you for making this constructive proposal. My feeling is that it would constitute a positive change to the current DWG import guidelines, which are greatly lacking in subtlety. Allow me to point out, and illustrate with the French cadastre case, a problem posed by the wish strictly to

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
I'm off to bed but would just like to respond to this one before I do. Tordanik wrote: On 25.09.2012 19:11, Richard Fairhurst wrote: - search-and-replace tag changes - automated geometry fixup - reverting edits In my opinion, none of that (if performed though editing software on a

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

2012-09-25 Thread ThomasB
Richard Fairhurst wrote Hang on, you've got this completely wrong. . Seems what you mean and what you wrote differ somehow Richard Fairhurst wrote And no - this isn't intended to hit restoring a single way via P1 (while it still exists) or whatever. But I read it so. Also selecting 10