Hi Eliot, Am Freitag, den 02.06.2017, 12:59 +1200 schrieb Eliot Blennerhassett: > Merging this dataset would also free mappers from the near-impossible > task of manual address entry for the whole country.
Mapping a country's addresses is not impossible, it is just difficult and a lengthy task. Urban areas are relatively fast mapped if the number of mappers per 1000 inhabitants is similar to some well known countries in Central Europe. The lengthy part is mapping rural areas where the distances between the settlements are large. If you want to strengthen your urban communities, you should only import addresses in rural areas. (This does not mean that you have to wait until urban areas are finished) Mapping addresses is no stupid work. Depending on your mapping technique, you can also collect other useful data or check if new buildings have been built and existing building been knocked down. These are just two examples on how to update data. > To anticipate some questions. > * The source data is CC-BY, and the attribution requirements are well > documented. The wiki page does not mention that the owner of the data granted a permission which lifts the limitations of CC-BY for OpenStreetMap. Please use the template provided by License Working Group. (It is not only the attribution requirement which makes the CC-BY to be incompatible with our licensing). https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3PN5zfbzThqeTdWR1l3SzJVcTg/view Some other thoughts while reading your wiki page: - What's the purpose of adding LINZ:address_id=* and linz:change_id=* to OSM? - You propose to add a tag source:revision=*. Where will it be placed? On the changeset or on the imported objects? - Where will you place the source=* tag you mention? On objects or on changesets? - You write on the wiki page that you are not sure whether to use addr:city=*, addr:place=* or addr:hamlet=* for the field "town_city" of the LINZ data. Why are you not sure? Is town_city a mix of information which should be stored in two distinct fields in an ideal dataset or are you unsure about the definitions of the three OSM tags? - Have you assessed the quality of the data by checking it on the ground on a few locations in urban and rural areas? - The wiki page should be improved by adding more technical details of the import, namely how duplicates will be detected and which software/workflow will be used to upload the data. Please publish the source code of the scripts if you use any (at a sufficient location for source code). - Please add a list of user accounts who will upload the data. Their user profiles at openstreetmap.org should mention who they belong to. One import account should only be used by one natural person. Although you write that your import proposal is in an early stage, you have already started uploading data. https://www.openstreetmap.org/chan geset/49492831 Please wait at least one week in addition whether further concerns are raised. Please read the Import Guideline carefully! I doubt that you haven't read it as carefully as necessary to do a good import. (Btw, it is a very good idea to read most emails of the last six months in the archive of this mailing list, too) Best regards Michael
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