Oh ya... now that im not in charge of the canvec data anymore, i'll have time to 'sift through' all the pages i made in the past year and clean it up.
... and yup, the PDF looks great. * I'd highligfht the purposed of the import@ discussion list even more :) Cheers, Sam On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:49 PM, SteveC <[email protected]> wrote: > Cool stuff Andy > > Few things > > * grep for 'data is cannot' broken sentence > * make the links clickable > * 'confirm with local mappers' should IMHO say mailing list AND contacting > local mappers not OR > * Change the guidance to require community participation in improving the > data not just leaving laying about? > * Perhaps have three levels of statements, 'generally we do' statements in > normal text, 'really you should do this or you will feel pain' in italic and > 'you must do this or die' in bold... or something. Otherwise newbies will > just cop out of anything they as they see fit? > > Yours &c. > > Steve > > > On Nov 16, 2009, at 7:59 AM, Andy Allan wrote: > > Hi Imports People, > > > > Whilst my views on imports are probably well known by now, I'm trying > > to do my bit to help improve things! > > > > The documenation on importing on the wiki is pretty sporadic - > > generally better stuff at the techie end, but less in the way of > > "holistic" information. I've been fixing up a lot of it over the past > > few weeks - removing duplication, linking pages together etc. > > > > As part of a couple of projects, I'd also been asked to write some > > guidance on how to "do" imports properly. I've written some guidance, > > mainly aimed at the "someone from a uni has their campus in a > > shapefile" type of person, not really for ultra-tech > > OSMers-who-already-know-it-all. > > > > You can find the .pdf file here: > > http://www.thunderflames.org/gis/Import%20Guidance.pdf > > > > What do you folks think? If you reckon it's along the right tracks, > > I'll also use it to guide my improvements to the wiki. In any case, > > suggestions for improvement welcome. > > > > Cheers, > > Andy > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Imports mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports >
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