At tonight's meeting we discussed this import. The feedback is in four parts:
1. License 2. Accounts 3. Data Process Recommendation 4. Community Building Recommendation 1. License The current version of the data linked to continues to contain the same license restrictions as earlier. While we understand that this is a temporary situation to be corrected by DoITT soon, until the issue is resolved, this data should not be uploaded to uploaded to OSM until it is either corrected, or given the okay by the LWG. 2. Accounts It is the recommendation of the group that as per the import guidelines, that users who wish to participate in importing data should create an account dedicated to imports. They do not need to create an account specific to this one import, but it needs to be a separate account than they use to edit from normally. 3. Data Process Recommendation Because of previous imports issues with manual imports, It's recommended that in areas where there are no existing buildings, that no humans be involved, and that they're done entirely by machine, which can be validated beforehand. In this case, it may just be as simple as running a process to upload the osc files. The downside to this is that there is no review before upload, but as has been shown in France and other places, users do not typically do any review anyway, so there's no tangible benefit to user's doing the work. 4. Community Building Recommendation As the Seattle group has shown, imports can be used to build community. At the same time, there's a concern about bad data conflation (either done incorrectly, or not done at all). In order to reduce the chances of this happening, while allowing for community involvement, there were several suggestions: a) That NYC not attempt to do its import until it has had a chance to talk with the Seattle community and understand their experience, positive and negative, and review the material they've put together b) That the tasking manager not be turned on for this import until the importers have had a chance to meet together in a room and do training with the general public/community, and possibly even meet before then to review the process. These were the suggestions of those at tonight's meeting. I'd also suggest, in addition to these suggestions, that where there are buildings, that if we can decrease the size of the areas to be worked on, that would be good. This is so that it's easier for a single person to work through an area. - Serge _______________________________________________ Imports-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us
