Jason - Would you be interested in joining the import / large edit committee? Given how you just went through a pretty ad-hoc import process it would be great to have your concrete input.
I'm seeing this committee as preliminary and exploratory. We don't have the answers yet. I'd love the committee to be constructive, forward looking and iterative. It ideally focuses in a first phase on aiding imports that are in the planning phase (would not include the ongoing MassGIS work) while parallelly building up solid guidelines for the US community and a plan to make this work sustainable. On Dec 17, 2012, at 10:30 PM, Jason Remillard <remillard.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Serge , > > I am sorry for being negative. I am feeling grumpy from the building > import ruckus, I probably just need to take break from this for bit. > The US import process is clearly borked right now, and I will support > 110% you and anybody that is trying to fix it. Please ignore my > snarky email(s) and accept my apologies. > > Thanks > Jason. > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Jason Remillard > <remillard.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Serge, >> >> You are tougher man than me :-) >> >> How about this, nobody on the committee that has not personally done >> at least 1 large import. If you do that, I am happy. Like I said, >> these imports require a bunch of specialized skills, it would be good >> to build up an expertise in it. >> >> Thanks >> Jason. >> >> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Serge Wroclawski <emac...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Jason Remillard >>> <remillard.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> If you setup a user group to "help" with the imports, I think it will >>>> be overrun with people that don't like all imports or are terrified of >>>> them being screwed up. >>> >>> I haven't received any negative feedback about this committe except >>> for yours, so I think maybe your judgement's a bit premature. >>> >>>> It will be like the UN human rights committee. >>>> More hostility, but now with an official sounding group name. In a >>>> sane world, there would be mappers that would be dedicated to imports. >>> >>> You seem to have your mind made up about a group that hasn't had its >>> first meeting. >>> >>>> They would build up expertise in licensing, data conversion, batch >>>> imports, large scale reverts, OSM processes, merging, efficiently >>>> communicating with locals, etc. However, if you came out and said "I >>>> do only imports", you would be getting hazed by the two groups of >>>> people all of the time. Does not sound like fun to me. >>> >>> Only do things you enjoy, so if it doesn't sound like fun to you, then >>> I say don't join. >>> >>> - Serge > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250 3633 _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
