Russ Nelson <[email protected]> writes: > On Jan 25, 2009, at 7:17 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: >> So I think this is really 3-way merge >> process, and there needs to be something that looks at each item in >> the >> new dump, finds any previous import, and checks if it has been >> modified. > Bulk imports should always be done under a user dedicated for that one > purpose. Bulk re-imports should only replace data if it still belongs
That's a good notion, but it doesn't seem to be true for the MassGIS data. > to the dedicated user. If somebody has edited it, then it belongs to > them now, and won't be touched. Then, we should rely on maplint to I should set up JOSM, but potlatch doesn't seem to show the last writer. Perhaps it should. > look at the tags, and mark data which has duplicate import tags > (presuming that the user who edited it didn't delete the import > tags). Otherwise, the problem devolves to duplicate data entry, which > is a problem we need to solve regardless (e.g. Poughkeepsie, NY got > mapped, and then overlaid by the TIGER import). Sure, but I think subsequent imports of upstream sources is a simpler problem.
pgpfarhlrkpRp.pgp
Description: PGP signature
_______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
