<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Msilikale, all,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Another issue to consider is conflation. There are already over 300 buildings mapped in Dar es Salaam http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/2t6, and the import process would want to carefully complement that existing data.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,
'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>As Saikrishna pointed out, best to follow the import guidelines in the wiki. First steps would be fully documenting the import source, and import plan, for discussion. Only after that, would any import actions be taken.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande',
sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>-Mikel</span></div><div></div><div> </div><div>* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron</div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Sunday, February 9, 2014 1:01 PM, Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div class="y_msg_container">On 2/9/14 11:39 AM, Mark Iliffe wrote:<div class="yqt2747951103" id="yqtfd92609"><br clear="none">> Msilikale,<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Have you considered
splitting up the data into a test district to see how you import as opposed to just going ahead with a rather large dataset? That way you can see how tagging works and test with the larger community. </div><br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">yes, i would say that current state of the art is along the lines<br clear="none">of partitioning the data into smaller chunks and using something<br clear="none">like the HOT task manager to do a little at a time, so you can<br clear="none">review each chunk for problems before moving on.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">richard<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:rwelty@averillpark.net" href="mailto:rwelty@averillpark.net">rwelty@averillpark.net</a><br clear="none"> Averill Park Networking - GIS & IT Consulting<br clear="none"> OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux<br clear="none"> Java - Web Applications - Search<div
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