> From: Frederik Ramm [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 12:55 PM > Subject: [Imports] kartverket imports to OpenStreetMap > > Dear [email protected] readers, > (Cc to [email protected]) > > I am writing to you in my role as a member of the OSMF Data Working > Group. Our job is to watch out for vandalism, mapping disputes, > copyright violations, and problematic imports. > > It is the last of these that I'm writing to you about. A number of > different users have conducted imports from "kartverket" data sets in > the recent past. Many of these imports had technical problems - e.g. > changesets filled with 50,000 nodes and thus very difficult to handle, > or often we can see that people first imported something and then > deleted half of it again, and so on. > > Importing is a difficult process and you can easily make a lot of > mistakes. That's why we request that any import is discussed before it > is conducted, so that experienced data importers can have a look at the > plans. > > While I have been told that this particular import has been discussed on > this list, it seems that either there were not enough experienced > importers on this list, or they have not succeeded in making sure that > this import runs smoothly. Also, the data that could potentially be > imported seems to be on a scale that warrants wider discussion.
Minor clarification, to those following imports@: I think the list Frederik refers to with "this list" is the [email protected] list, *not* the [email protected] mailing list. _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
