Am 02.01.2012 20:05, schrieb Martijn van Exel:
Hi,
There's a lot of imports / fixbots / scripts that have affected the US
data over the years. I am finding this out slowly by slowly, asking
questions here and on IRC sometimes. The Road Name Expansion script is
a recent example that was discussed on the tagging list and here.
Another is that there are actually two different GNIS imports. This
makes it hard for mappers to focus their efforts when they first start
out. Also (and as importantly), external data consumers will have a
really hard time processing and using OSM data if information on
imports and fixbots is not consolidated - especially if a fixbot was
only run on half the country, as was the case with the name expansion.
I propose a wiki editing effort to consolidate information on scripts
and fixbots run in the US. I know that there is a global Import
Catalog page already, and this would partially duplicate the
information found there. I think it makes sense to do it anyway
because:
* The US is a specific and important market for many potential data
consumers, and they need this info in one place
* The US data is particularly strongly shaped by imports and automated edits.
I have made a start here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States/Imports_And_Automated_Edits
This page would replace or be integrated into the current Data page
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States/Data - I
did not want to overhaul that page just yet without engaging in this
discussion first. So:
* US imports and fixbots page: good idea?
* Format of the page: good? Maybe a table format? Include more
information? If so, which?
* Please add / complete / modify and most importantly discuss!
Hi Martijn,
thanks for setting this up. Personaly I would recommend to use the
Imports mainpage, as so everybody else can find them. Even /subpages
isn't that wise (but I was a fan of it, too ;)) as it makes it very hard
to place links and tries to build up hirachies. But a wiki is a ontology
and therefore works with categories :)
bye
Matthias
(user:!i!)
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