Am 06.06.2012 12:16, schrieb Worst Fixer:
It ist not importing, but it ist a large part of it. It should be not
on import guide lines. Import guide lines should only cover actual
imports.
You're right: that's not in the current written version of the import
guidelines.
But the current written import guidelines require discussion with the
community, and if you read past discussions for imports on the mailing
list archives, you will see, that often the possibility of exactly this
kind of "semi-importing" at least has been proposed, sometimes it has
been used after that "idea" mentioned by a commenter.
On top of that you could find many examples of these "semi-imports" in
the wiki as that has been used frequently to store and organize the
manual work on these datasets.
Please stop referring to the import guideline as a hard law in the
context of rewriting them to make them easier.
The written import guidelines are something like "minimum requirements":
At least follow them, but feel free to do more, and discuss the issue
with the community.
Semi-imports are often considered as a better solution: to fix this
external data source availlable for mappers, but let the community
import the data in line with local knowledge and a working human mind to
compare with existent osm data.
IF you really want to work on making the import guidelines better, IMHO
(and as you see, some people agree with me) the possibility of
semi-importing in the sense of providing readable datasets is a valid,
useful, but sometimes less known option.
regards
Peter
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