I know I saw the messages and even commented on some of the proposals. It was back in April I believe.
The wiki page is http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Great_Smoky_Mountains_National_Park On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Thomas Colson <[email protected]>wrote: > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/imports-us/2013-April/000052.html > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2013-April/010698.html > > > > We feel we did our due diligence in informing the community of this import > in advance of the activity, including posting in the appropriate Wiki > pages, > import-us, and talk-us. We got lots of feedback through the mailing list > and > via direct email and reached out to some users that we identified were > using > the data commercially. As we could not identify any "local community" Wiki > page or mailing list specifically relevant to the mountain region of east > TN/west NC, we reviewed item histories to see who the "power mappers" > within > the park footprint were (and communicated with the one we did find), and > exchanged email with one of you directly regarding a component of our > proposed import, which lead to us dropping streams from our initial import. > For the most part, community feedback was incorporated in our planning > where > we are legally allowed to do so, including use of a dedicated import > account. > > If there is a formal path for approval of a proposed import, we'd love to > hear about it. This is a pilot project which will hopefully entice other > National Parks to do the same, and we plan on putting a lot of effort into > maintaining a Wiki page for NPS imports. If a NPS Park updating OSM data > results in this type of reaction, we'd like to get in front of it so the > next park doesn't get such a hostile response. The goal is to encourage > park > GIS managers to be active participants in the OSM community, and hopefully > there will be many more NPS park imports hitting the "street". > > As we plan on continuing with importing/updating the park footprint > throughout the summer, we look forward to a meaningful dialogue which allow > that process to move smoothly. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Remillard [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2013 3:10 PM > To: Thomas Colson > Subject: Re: [Imports-us] USNPS, Great Smoky Mountains Bulk Import In > Progress > > Hi Thomas, > > It might help posting the URL to the import project wiki, and the change > set > url. Going forward, you should do this for every update to the email lists. > It would help give everybody context. There are lots of imports going on, > so > it is hard for everybody to keep track of them. > > I did end up finding the wiki, Honestly, the it is a bit confusing. > Lots of different kinds of changes. A sample OSM file posted to the list > would probably have been a better for everybody to look at. > > Thanks > Jason. > > On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Thomas Colson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > We have completed "seeding" a portion of Great Smoky Mountains > > National Park OSM data this weekend. We focused on the Cades Cove > > section of the park, which contains a complete sample of the types of > > features that are of relevance to visitor services and how they can be > depicted in OSM. > > > > The parking icons and labels are a bit obtrusive in the default OSM > > renderer, as are the building labels. I'll likely remove some parking > > node tags as well as building labels, really not necessary to label > > every shed and generator building (this is what came out of our > > default facilities data). Parking ways are also named, so I don't see > > a problem with not labeling every single parking node. > > > > The only import issues were related to connecting a few roads to roads > > we weren't updating, JOSM Editor caught those smoothly. > > > > The update rendered in the ESRI OSM Tile Service within a few minutes, > > which was very cool, and also allowed for rapid QA against our Raw GIS > database. > > > > Nate and Mamata will be presenting our work at State of the Map in a > > few weeks, and will incorporate feedback into the remainder of the park > import. > > > > Changesets are linked on the GRSM Wiki Page. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Imports-us mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us > > > _______________________________________________ > Imports-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us > -- Clifford OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
_______________________________________________ Imports-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us
