Hi Rafael,

I added a link to the original data files to the import wiki.

Best,

Michael

Michael Wagner
Geospatial Software Developer and Consultant
allspatial - Geospatial Software and Services
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Mahe / Republic of Seychelles

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> On 6. Aug 2018, at 18:15, Rafael Avila Coya <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Michael:
> 
> Thank you for submitting this import for review, and good luck in building a 
> local OSM community in the Seychelles!
> 
> I can't find the data license for both sources when clicking in their 
> respective links in the wiki. Could you point us to where we can find them? 
> Making sure that the license is ODbL compatible is key before proceeding with 
> the import.
> 
> As for the import itself, it looks good quality and well organized. Some 
> issues/improvements I would add:
> 
> 1. I can't see any link to the original data file(s).
> 
> 2. After checking some of the OSM data for the Seychelles, I see that at 
> least roads and some buildings seem to have been traced against Bing imagery, 
> so I wonder if it would be better to align the buildings to be imported with 
> that imagery provider too. But not sure if this would be convenient or not. 
> I'd like more opinions on this.
> 
> 3. Running the JOSM validator over the seychelles_buildings.osm, it gives 4 
> crossing buildings that should be corrected before the import.
> 
> 4. I would strongly recommend that you add these two tags to the changeset 
> tags:
> 
> type=import
> url=https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Seychelles_Building_Import 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Seychelles_Building_Import>
> 
> That way, people will be able to easily know that the data have been imported 
> following the import guidelines.
> 
> Cheers, and thank you again,
> 
> Rafael.
> 
> On 05/08/18 09:51, Michael Wagner wrote:
>> Dear OSM Community,
>> I intend to upload building outlines and relating tags for the inner islands 
>> of the Seychelles, contributed by the Centre for GIS and the National Bureau 
>> of Statistics of the Seychelles under the ODbL.
>> I followed the Import Guidelines, added an entry to the Import Catalogue and 
>> created a relating wiki page:
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Seychelles_Building_Import
>> Please note that there is basically no OSM community yet in the Seychelles 
>> but we (friends, colleagues and myself) are trying to establish one. We have 
>> a one-week mapathon event with secondary school teachers and students from 
>> August 27 to September 1 which is our first major attempt to make OSM known 
>> to a wider range of people here in the Seychelles. Having the building 
>> outlines I intend to import available in OSM would facilitate our mapathon a 
>> lot and the data collection teams could focus on collecting building details 
>> (and other features) rather than tracing building outlines.
>> I have created a dedicated user account that will be used only for the 
>> import.
>> I would be happy to receive any feedback from your side.
>> Many thanks,
>> Michael
>> Michael Wagner
>> Geospatial Software Developer and Consultant
>> allspatial - Geospatial Software and Services
>> P.O. Box 4122, Anse Royale
>> Mahe / Republic of Seychelles
>> Web: https://www.allspatial.sc
>> Email:  [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
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