Dear Robin,
I see that these buildings have got one author who has on his statistics
page about 6 thousand edits. How do you know that these buildings were
actually imported and not drawn manually in an editor? Was there a clear
acknowledgement about importing of these building? I have got about 9
thousand edits on mine and I did not do a single import.
I am not a stranger to horrors of untangling Gordian knots of automated
imports and ravages of optical shape recognition software on vast
expanses. I am not in a Data Group, but I am curious how you realized
that these are the imports? From where this data could be imported? Was
it actually imported from a database or drawn automatically by some
pattern & shape recognition software?
Who could have such a detailed database about hundreds of thousands of
buildings? Who could enter such data into a legacy database? With what
tools?
With best regards,
Oleksiy
On 16.08.17 01:10, Robin Paulson wrote:
Before I ask for assistance, please note this: I've already brought
this up on osm-imports and got nowhere useful.
http://osm.org/go/uuU13aiv
There are a number of users in NZ doing mass imports of building data
in Auckland (I estimate 500,000 buildings), while wilfully ignoring
community guidelines.
I have asked numerous times for those doing the imports to stop and
follow the notes on the imports page. There is no wiki page, no
discussion on osm-imports, only vague references to a tool called
linz2osm and responses of "Oh, I thought everything had been OK'd
already, we discussed it on a local (google groups) mailing list".
Sometimes they stop for a while and then restart some time later,
maybe hoping no-one will notice. I hear there are other imports too,
one of the importers offhand mentioned a mass import of waterways,
also with no wiki page, discussion or outside involvement.
I bring it up here, because nobody subscribed to osm-imports appears
willing to back up these requests, to say to the importers that they
should follow the guidelines. A number of the importers are subscribed
to the osm-imports and osm-talk lists, but are strangely quiet when I
mention this request to stop and do things with community involvement.
--
robin
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