Serge, I think you missed the line:
"More news to follow." >From what I read it is a first email to the list introducing the import and >saying what they are working on. Maybe I'm misreading but I read your response >as being a bit negative. It looks as though Jeff has discussed/is discussing >it with his local community "A group of Seattle OSM'ers (led by Cliff Snow) >are getting together to discuss the methods for importing and double-checking >the information. >http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Seattle/events/93524692/"; And he is following the guidelines (the key being 'appropriate local communities'): "Discuss your import on the [email protected] mailing list and with appropriate local communities. Many local communities have their own wiki pages and/or a Mailing lists. Coordinate with other people with similar plans." Thanks, Glen On 4/12/2012, at 11:30 AM, Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Jeff Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: >> All - >> >> The city of Seattle has recently granted permission to use data found at >> data.seattle.gov in OpenStreetMap. >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#City_of_Seattle.2C_Washington >> >> A group of Seattle OSM'ers (led by Cliff Snow) are getting together to >> discuss the methods for importing and double-checking the information. >> http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Seattle/events/93524692/ > > >> The current plan is to focus on addresses and building outlines. >> Sources are currently suggested to be tagged as: >> source:addr=data.seattle.gov >> source:path=data.seattle.gov >> so as to accomodate other sourcing information for those points and ways, as >> appropriate. > > source tags are not really appropriate for indivdual elements, but > should be on the changeset, but more importantly, the specific > datasets should be referenced, as data.seattle.gov doesn't talk about > the version of the data, or even what dataset it is. > >> Data has been converted from shape to osm using pnorman's ogr2osm python >> scripts and some translation instructions Cliff has put together. > > Where is the source of your transformation scripts? > Where are the specific data files you're transforming? > How will you handle object conflation? > >> More news to follow. Please advise of any concerns. > > I have many concerns, some of which are discussed above, but more > generally, you seem to not have discussed this with the greater OSM > community, including the talk-us list. > > Imports are very sensitive and should not be taken without an > incredible amount of thought and planning, and a lot of community > involvement. > > - Serge > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
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