On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've combined their responses and made them generic. I take my turn to combine your arguments: > - "Too hard to register with another email." I say use > [email protected] if they support it. Alternatively, > those concerned in the French community can surely offer their members > additional email accounts to support their community. - Uploading other contributor's work is probably breaking another "guideline". Using a single separate user account or a proxy user for all users has been already suggested. It would comply with the import guideline but we don't want that. > - "I don't want to change account settings in JOSM." I say start josm > with alternate josm.home directory with your saved credentials. Like: > java -Xmx2038M -Djosm.home=/home/username/import -jar > /home/username/bin/josm-latest.jar - in Europe, the trend is to open more and more public geodata. It's usual to find contributors uploading external data from 2, 3 or 4 different sources. Each will require a different user account, a different email address and a different JOSM preference file. Each time you change something in your preference, you will have to repeat it in all your homes. > - "Cadastre is not an import." Cadastre is an import. Could you do > the same thing if there were no Cadastre to import? No, - Untrue. The cadastre is also available as WMS. We started by tracing manually over raster images. I guess what UK users are doing today with OS buildings, we did it in the past until we were able to retrieve the vector data. > - "Cadastre is different; I am careful before I upload." All mappers > are careful don't insult the rest of the community. :-) Fixing and > reconciling data before upload is the obligation you have when > contributing. Cadastre is still an import. - I agree. Cadastre is an import, but not a blind, automated, large scale import done after conflation on a GIS application. > - "No. I want credit for all of my mapping statistics all in one > place." Simplest to fix. UserStat now allows you to combine stats > from a group of your accounts. - nobody came here for statistics. Pieren _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
