Hi, Many of the import/robot guidelines, could be simplified, if we adopted a new/more general rule.
A "good" import results in OSM data that is indistinguishable from normally mapped data. Generally, normal mappers would not - put down a node every half meter on a straight line. - map a feature twice, or otherwise ignore data that is already in the map. - create a new node for a POI, when the building is already in OSM. - use non-standard tags with no documentation in our wiki. It should not go into the database via an import if we don't have an standardized way of tagging it by now. - type in an address in all caps. - map a feature 100 meter from its true position, when high quality satellite images are available. - create a change sets with 50,000 elements. - create a map with a complex network of relations, when a simpler data representation is possible - etc... Insisting that imported data be indistinguishable from normally mapped data might make it easier to communicate with people wishing to do imports by providing an overriding framework/justification for our many existing guidelines. Thanks Jason. _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
