David, I have a number of concerns about the import proposal.
Firstly, your goal is stated to add ~66,000 buildings and addresses to the OSM map. This builds on the work of the previous building import in DC which was never completed. There is nothing in this proposal about the existing buildings and addresses, about any conflation or updates. This concerns me, as it means that part of the city will have new data, part of the city will have old data, and there is no plan to correct/update as part of this process. Secondly, your schedule is far too agressive. Giving the OSM community two days to review your plan is simply not reasonable. You must provide people the opportunity to review your proposal, ask questions, review your data, review your process, get answers, review those answers. I would say that two of meaningful discussion would be a miniumum that it would be possible to do this in, not 48 hours. I haven't even had a chance to get to the data yet. Thirdly, this proposal doesn't mention who will be doing the import work. I suspect that based on the supporters that this means that the import will be done using paid staff. Is that correct? If it's not correct, what plans/process will you use for working with the local community to do this work? If it is correct, and you will be using paid staff, based on the tremendous problems that this caused NYC on a multitude of fronts, what steps will you be taking to address the problems of oversight, of integration, etc. that we had in NYC? This ties directly into your aggressive schedule. How do you know the work will only take until June 30th? Fourthly, I'd like to know if there is any contact/money/services exchanging hands that is in any way connected with this import. This isn't part of the guidelines, but based on the supporters explicitly listed, I think this is a question that the community deserves to know the answer to. - Serge Wroclawski _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
