If there is no permission then edits sould be reverted.
Can you link affected ones?
Jun 14, 2021, 02:16 by [email protected]:
> At the moment I'm a little concerned about how at >
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_data_catalogue#Australian_Capital_Territory>
> it says that the government hasn't given permission for anyone to use the
> dataset just yet. Would it be better to just revert my edits for now until we
> have a waiver. I don't want to be doing anything illegal.
>
> On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 at 12:10, Sebastian S. <> [email protected]> > wrote:
>
>> Hi Andrew,
>> Great that you reach out to the community.
>>
>> For osm imports planning and community buy in are important steps prior to
>> the actual import.
>>
>> This is to ensure high quality imports, avoiding reverts and can also get
>> you additional hands doing the work.
>>
>> There are different ways of doing this. >>
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines>> will give you some
>> guidance.
>>
>> Essentially you should be writing down what you want to do and how you want
>> to do it.
>>
>> The how should cover preparation of the data, tags you want to use, how to
>> deal with existing osm nodes and objects.
>> For large imports it's also suggested to use a separate account.
>>
>> As I see it there are two ways of going about it. One is to sketch the idea
>> and work through the details with the community, then write the import page
>> on the wiki as a summary.
>> The other approach would be to start the import page first then seek
>> feedback from the community.
>>
>> In either case please don't feel discouraged by any of this.
>>
>> Thanks for your contributions.
>> Seb
>>
>>
>>
>> On 13 June 2021 11:02:31 am AEST, Andrew Munday <>> [email protected]>>
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not 100% sure what you mean by "how I'm mapping into the OSM tag
>>> schema" but for street lamps I was placing nodes and using the tag
>>> "highway"="street_lamp" which is how the wiki says to tag them.
>>> As for dealing with conflicts, I used overpass turbo to query all the
>>> existing street lamps and made sure to do my test uploads in suburbs that
>>> didn't already have any street lamps in them. I'm not really sure how I'd
>>> merge with any existing street lamps at the moment.
>>> Hopefully this goes to the mailing list. I don't really know what I'm doing.
>>>
>>> On Sat, 12 Jun 2021 at 20:42, Andrew Harvey <>>>
>>> [email protected]>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> See >>>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines
>>>>
>>>> For starters I'd like to see how you're mapping into the OSM tag schema,
>>>> how you plan to deal with conflicts (if any are already mapped in the ACT).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, 12 Jun 2021, 10:03 am Andrew Munday, <>>>>
>>>> [email protected]>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello everyone. I'm not sure what I'm doing with this mailing list thing
>>>>> so bear with me. I'm building an augmented reality game ala Pokemon Go
>>>>> and one of the objects in the game are street lamps. I've been adding a
>>>>> lot of changes around my house in Canberra for around a year and the
>>>>> other day I found out about automated edits and figured I could use the
>>>>> street lamps dataset at >>>>>
>>>>> https://www.data.act.gov.au/Infrastructure-and-Utilities/ACT-Streetlights/cfpr-4tpw>>>>>
>>>>> to speed up the process. I did look at the automatic edits code of
>>>>> conduct page and I couldn't figure out who I should contact about my
>>>>> plans to do it so I submitted a few changesets and ticked the box saying
>>>>> I wanted someone to review my edits which got someone to tell me to
>>>>> message here. I'm happy to undo the changesets if needed but I'd like
>>>>> some guidance on how to do this sort of thing.
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>>>>>
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