Just want to second Martin's observation here.
The main purposes of import policies are related to both licensing review as
well as reviewing the overall plan of the import: how the data will be
conflated, how any data fields will be translated with tags, and QA/validation
to ensure the data is integrated well within OSM.
The additional point I'd make is that *any* imported data should be reviewed by
the person importing it, so this doesn't create any sort of distinction when
importing data into OSM from a 3rd party source. Granted, you may not review
each Individual building footprint, but one should at least "eyeball" it to
make sure nothing egregious goes undetected.
For the original question on Microsoft building footprints, there are a number
of existing projects on the Wiki (such as the one here in Dallas) that could
serve as a template for any other import project.
-Andrew
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> On 14. Feb 2019, at 17:57, Angela Morley via Imports
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> In my personal opinion, I would assume items being imported in an individual
> fashion with human input are subject to the data license policies of OSM, but
> are not subject to the community imports approval process, as there's no risk
> mitigation to be concerned with.
data from third parties which isn’t in the public domain is always a liability
for OSM, because it might be incompatible with a future license as codified in
the contributor terms (if anybody still believes in a possible license change
in the future), and it may taint other contributions that build upon it. Even
cc0 is such a liability because the data publisher does not guarantee that it
is free of rights.
Therefore the community should retain the right to refuse it.
Cheers, Martin
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