Hi, I'm a somehow active member of the OSM community and one of the founders of the Swiss OSM foundation. One of my research interests is the combination of OSM data and external databases (and communities). Id like to just drop just few comments.
I've never seen a conversation about a locking feature but I can hardly imagine that OSM will ever implement such a thing because OSM is a "doocraty". And I'd like to make you aware that the OSM community is very reluctant to bulk import data - even if its authoritative or quality proven: See the guidelines [1]. They rather setup separate pages where mappers can take the "external data" and integrate it by hand into OSM database. One of my ideas is to implement an "OSM alert service" where changes in OSM are triggering an alert in a separate external database system. Note, that there exists no official OSM object id since they want to be free to reorganize the main database (which currently is a single master database in the UK). Yours, Stefan [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import 2013/5/31 Frederic Julien <[email protected]>: > Thanks to Eric and others for their input. I'll share my presentation via > slideshare once completed. > > Please continue to share your insights :) > > Kind Regards, > > Frederic > > ________________________________ > From: Eric Wolf <[email protected]> > To: "Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)" <[email protected]> > Cc: Frederic Julien <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 10:37 AM > Subject: Re: [Geowanking] OSM Data Quality > > Bob, > > Hosting a private OSM is exactly what USGS is doing with the National Map > Corps: > > http://navigator.er.usgs.gov/ > > A fundamental problem with a "locking" feature is that it assumes the > authority that holds the lock is able to produce the highest quality > data. This is anathema to the spirit of OSM. > > -Eric > > -=--=---=----=----=---=--=-=--=---=----=---=--=-=- > Eric B. Wolf 720-334-7734 > > > > > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Frederic, >> >> >> >> I’ve mentioned this before (and haven’t seen a solution back yet), but a >> method for organizations to take responsibility for an area and maintain >> specific items in that area. >> >> >> >> I work for the City of Saint Paul. OSM is not of any use to us unless I >> upload our data. As an example dataset, let’s use our Street Centerlines, >> which we have a lot of time invested in keeping up to date and spatially >> accurate. We do this by mandate and get paid to do it. If these features >> are added to OSM, there is no way to maintain (keep them locked up edit >> wise) for only our staff to adjust. >> >> >> >> We actually want to become the custodians of this type of data (amoung >> others) for a particular bounding area, and want others to tell us when >> the >> data is incorrect. Until this type of feature control is in place, it’s >> not >> easy for me to push for OSM adoption at our organization, or others that >> use >> our datasets. >> >> >> >> One thought I had was to host a private OSM service that could be mixed >> into >> the open data side in some manner. I’m open to further discussions on >> this >> topic, and truthfully I haven’t looked back at OSM for over a year now, so >> something may be in place for this type of usage that I don’t know about. >> >> >> >> Bobb >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> From: Geowanking [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Frederic Julien >> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 12:22 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [Geowanking] OSM Data Quality >> >> >> >> Dear all, >> >> >> >> I'm working on a presentation and interested to hear your thoughts. What >> are >> the top 2-3 changes that could improve OSM data quality? That could be >> processes, tools, methods, training, peer review, attributes, etc. >> >> >> >> If this sort of info is available elsewhere let me know. >> >> >> >> Looking forward to your answers. >> >> >> >> Many thanks, >> >> >> >> Frederic >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Geowanking mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
