I'm the one running the tasking manager. On Oct 17, 2016 9:08 PM, "AJ Ashton" <a...@ajashton.ca> wrote:
> Hi John, > > Thanks for the writeup. I think this is the first post that's made it > fully clear what is going on. As I was re-reading the previous StatCan > thread earlier today I seemed to be missing something - now I guess it was > context available to those who attended in-person meetings. I don't think > it was even clear to the list until now how much in-person community > discussion has been happening. > > Basically the issue is that all the online discussion about this looks to > have been about the StatCan crowdsourcing half of the project and none at > all about the building import half. I didn't pay too much attention to the > original StatCan thread at the time because it so clearly sounded like a > local mapping project with no large-scale import component. > > Unfortunately I no longer live in Ottawa and couldn't have made it to the > meetings. However I lived there for many years, have done a lot of mapping > there, and have a continued interest in the area. I would still like to see > the the building import happen and even help out where I can. But I think > it's important to do more planning and discussion on this list and the > imports list, and to take things in smaller and more manageable chunks. > > I guess the next step would be to continue on a proper path to import the > buildings per the guidelines per http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/ > wiki/Import/Guidelines . This would include: > > - Wiki documentation of the where the data is, what it contains & its > license / permissions > - A plan to conflate with existing data - preserving history, keeping > existing attributes, and merging addresses onto buildings where possible > before the data is uploaded > - A specific plan for uploading the data. Eg how the data will be divided > up into chunks and step-by-step instructions for JOSM, etc. A task server > was mentioned several times - who is running this and how can others > participate? > - A proper review on the imports mailing list > > I don't necessarily agree with every single rule in the import guidelines, > but they are what the community has decided on and I think for the most > part they help avoid the kinds of issues I had with deleted and duplicated > data in Ottawa. > > -- > AJ Ashton > a...@ajashton.ca > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > >
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