Hi, On 01/16/18 01:35, Liam R Crozier wrote: > Not entirely sure how this works but here goes. I have created an import > page for a potential project to vastly provide information on the rail > network within the UK.
I've read your wiki page and I like that you seem to be planning to review everything manually. Technically, what you're proposing here is probably not even an import, but just "a mapper making intensive use of a third-party data source while mapping". Since you're planning a bigger operation, it is nonetheless a very good idea to discuss it in advance - or perhaps even seek people to help you complete it! You don't say much about the data source. You say "NESA and/or the Sectional Appendix", but you don't say how that data goes into OSM - by way of a shape file you open in JOSM? An imagery background that you trace off of? Maybe just a catalogue you look up data in? Before you start anything, you should document the licensing more thoroughly; I don't think that "Network Rail have given permission to use NESA and/or the Sectional Appendix to add extra information to the UK rail network." is enough. We'd want to read that explicit permission and know who has given it to whom. If you have a document, or even just an email, you could upload that to the wiki and link to it from your changeset comments. Also, since you write that "a Freedom of Information request has been submitted", please do not assume that anything you are given as a response to a FoI request is automatically valid to add to OSM; FoI responses are not in the public domain. I don't understand much of the railways, others will surely comment on that (I second the suggestion to check with talk-gb, and there's even a public transport and an OpenRailwayMap mailing list if you want to talk to the real railway geeks). I see that you have created some "Key" pages on the wiki to match your import plans (e.g. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:route_availability); this is not how things are normally done on the wiki. You are expected to start such pages under the "Proposed" namespace and only move them out of that if the tag has got much traction or is explicitly voted on. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
