On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Worst Fixer wrote:
Hello.
Ich read current import guide lines. They are long. Hard to
understand. Easy to ignore. Even established mappers some times fail
following. Even when they want.
Look: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines
Ich also want this easy guide lines to be enforced by DWG. I will help
finding people who ignore it.
Nobody should be able to import loads of data without any discussion
and escape a block and or revert.
Often we have situations like
1. Person emails @imports saying that they have really cool data and want to
import it.
2. People reply with 'don't do it because of X', or ask 'how are you dealing
with Y'
3. The person imports anyway.
This person discussed the import with the community but they still
shouldn't have gone forward with it. If we are updating the guidelines
they need to be updated to address this.
Also a lot of imports fail on the uploading data step resulting in duplicate
or unattached nodes. Guideline updates should also address this (maybe
require importers to do a test import on dev and then revert the test
import on dev)
--
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