Oh, that makes far more sense!

Sorry for jumping on you but it sounded exactly like "lets import known bad 
things and
fix it later" which is a common mistake that almost never goes well.


Feb 2, 2023, 01:11 by [email protected]:

> I am sorry, I think there has been some confusion. When I said "at the end of 
> the import", I meant "in the final stages of the importing process", before I 
> upload the data, to check the integrity.
>
> On 2 February 2023 5:16:01 am AEST, James Umbanhowar <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Please do not import inaccurate data with the intent of fixing it      
>> later.  If you want to practice an import, correct your data      first, 
>> then import it later.  Too often imported data sets with      errors gets 
>> forgotten and then there is a bunch of poor data in      the database.
>>
>>
>> I recommend surveying all the points and to correct all the      external 
>> data, then importing, if you really want to practice      importing.
>>
>>
>> James
>>
>> On 2/1/23 12:20, James via Imports      wrote:
>>
>>> Since there are only ~100 bike parkings in the dataset, all in our      
>>> CBD, I plan to check them all in person at the end of the import.      The 
>>> main reason I'm doing this is to get more experience with      imports and 
>>> josm. I have already added a few bike parking spots      manually outside 
>>> the CBD. Does this still seem worrying to you? 
>>>  
>>>  Also, I'm not sure what you mean by highway=* with respect to bike      
>>> parking. 
>>>  
>>>  
>>> On 2 February 2023 2:50:13 am AEST,        Marc_marc >>> 
>>> <[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]>>>>  wrote: 
>>>
>>>> Hello,Le 01.02.23 à 09:32, James via Imports a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>> I'm relatively new at OSMDoes anyone have anything they'd like to add, 
>>>>> any advice, or any reasons I shouldn't go ahead with this?
>>>>>
>>>> starting a import when you describe yourself as "relatively new"is maybe 
>>>> not a good idea.it would be better to do the first additions classically, 
>>>> find out how to deal with highway=* to divide, errors in existing data, 
>>>> poor location in opendata, ...if you still want to do an import, you have 
>>>> probably read thatthe guideline asks you to make a wiki page describing 
>>>> your projectRegards,Marc
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