Hi, On 18.09.2012 18:04, Christian Quest wrote:
Still no answer to my main original questions: - who decided the import guidelines ?
It is a policy that has grown gradually. Just like other things in OSM have - you'll not find anything about a vote for highway=motorway on the Wiki either.
- who decided to make the dedicated account mandatory ?
We always expected people to set up a dedicated account for large imports and just adapted the wording to make that clearer.
In another post, you have complained about the fact that the information is not straightforward, or not easy to find. However, I wish to repeat that nobody went to the offending user saying "you didn't read the policy, so we have blocked you and we'll revert your edits". The user was only blocked after being made aware of the policy and then continuing to ignore it. So this is not an issue of an user having difficulties in finding the applicable policy.
As a DWG member, I don't expect subservience and I don't run around with guns blazing. But if I tell someone not to do something and they simply ignore me then I will block them in order to be listened to. If the user wants to discuss something with me that's fine but please discuss first, import later.
How would you *like* import guidelines to be decided? Do you have any workable concept for that? Because I would really be interested.
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