Den 18. okt. 2013 00:02, skreiv Sverre Didriksen:
I used to like working with OSM, but after my user was blocked I
don't. Hopefully it will come back. So for now I will leave the import
to you guys.
The block is just temporary, just talk to someone in the Data Working
Group if you have questions. I would be pretty sad if you left the OSM
community after this. I love your work and appreciates your input.
I don't know if your example with the 50 000 nodes was mine, but just
in case; you of all should know that it failed because my user was
blocked by you. The nodes are always transfered first and the ways and
relations etc at the end. So a break like that will always make it
fail. And by the way, it was no problem reverting it.
Don't worry about that changeset, it is not important and it is no
problems reverting it in the current state. The block were probably done
to prevent further damage in case the user were not responsible enough
to work together on this import (in all fairness most people uploading
50 000 nodes without any discussion are pretty reckless).
I hate the import guidelines as much as anyone when it is directed
towards me. If the data was realeased a couple of years back when the
effects of undiscussed imports were little known I would probably have
imported the data with little or no discussion. However I now see that
it is pretty important to iron out all the small problems with an import
before it is being implemented, failing to do so will cause a lot of
pain later down the line.
As far as this import goes, I understand that you have been trying to
import data from the N50 dataset. This is a vector dataset meant for
rendering and therefore have a lot of small problems when importing it
into a dataset like OSM that have to consider other uses. We have
already started to discuss some of these problems but there are still
things to look into. I have been reading the documentation for the data
we have been given for almost two weeks now and have just begun
understanding the way they handle some of the features.
Some people think that N50 is impossible to import into OSM in any form
because the differences in the way the datasets are. It might be that we
have to find alternative ways of using the data to assist with the
improvement of OSM. I hope that we can figure out a way to use the data
in a reasonable way so that we do not make OSM worse then the
alternatives, but we need help from experienced mappers and data
consumers to do this.
Gnonthgol
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