<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Cross-post from Talk GB<br></div><div> (please be aware there have been some comments to this post so your POV may already have been articulated)<br></div><div>Apart from some posts about the problems with email
notifications of changeset discussions, there has been nothing to
indicate where I take this import. I guess that's because the initative
is really down to me.<br><br></div>I've annotated the <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Birmingham_City_Council_trees_data" target="_blank">Import wiki page</a>
with some comments and ideas. I've copied below what I think are the
relevant bits from the wiki page and I look forward to resolving the
issues as I'm keen to complete the import.<br><br></div>Extract from wiki page:<br><p>So update approach is to be planned. <i><b>This is not a requirement
currently listed in the wiki imports guidelines. However it is good
practice and the issue was raised with Amey and Birmingham City Council
as soon as the data was released. Don't expect quick results!</b></i>
</p><p><b>Import user problems</b>: The import so far has been entirely uploaded by the <a class="gmail-m_5617670222044427010external gmail-m_5617670222044427010gmail-text" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/brianboru" target="_blank">brianboru</a>
user account.
The size of the import was such that it should have been carried out by
specially created OpenStreetMap user account. This guideline is in order
to create another mechanism of separating/disentangling these edits
from normal mapping
</p><p><i><b>Solution: dedicated import account created: <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/brianboruimport" target="_blank">brianboruimport</a></b></i>
</p><p><b>Tag problems</b> : <br></p><h3><font size="4"><span class="gmail-m_5617670222044427010gmail-mw-headline" id="gmail-m_5617670222044427010gmail-Example_imported_tree">Example imported tree</span></font></h3><p><a class="gmail-m_5617670222044427010external gmail-m_5617670222044427010gmail-free" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4721553869" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/<wbr>node/4721553869</a>
</p>
<dl><dd><tt style="background:rgb(238,238,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%" dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_5617670222044427010gmail-mw-content-ltr"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:natural" title="Key:natural" target="_blank">natural</a>=<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dtree" title="Tag:natural=tree" target="_blank">tree</a></tt></dd><dd><tt style="background:rgb(238,238,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%" dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_5617670222044427010gmail-mw-content-ltr"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:source" title="Key:source" target="_blank">source</a>=bcc_dec_2016</tt></dd><dd><tt style="background:rgb(238,238,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%" dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_5617670222044427010gmail-mw-content-ltr"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:form&action=edit&redlink=1" class="gmail-m_5617670222044427010gmail-new" title="Key:form (page does not exist)" target="_blank">form</a>=Natural</tt></dd><dd><tt style="background:rgb(238,238,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%" dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_5617670222044427010gmail-mw-content-ltr"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:age&action=edit&redlink=1" class="gmail-m_5617670222044427010gmail-new" title="Key:age (page does not exist)" target="_blank">age</a>=New Planting</tt></dd><dd><tt style="background:rgb(238,238,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%" dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_5617670222044427010gmail-mw-content-ltr"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:height" title="Key:height" target="_blank">height</a>=2 to 2.99m</tt></dd><dd><tt style="background:rgb(238,238,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%" dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_5617670222044427010gmail-mw-content-ltr"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:species" title="Key:species" target="_blank">species</a>=Liquidambar styraciflua 'Worpl</tt></dd><dd><tt style="background:rgb(238,238,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%" dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_5617670222044427010gmail-mw-content-ltr"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:usrn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="gmail-m_5617670222044427010gmail-new" title="Key:usrn (page does not exist)" target="_blank">usrn</a>=2701986</tt></dd><dd><tt style="background:rgb(238,238,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%" dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_5617670222044427010gmail-mw-content-ltr"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:plot_number&action=edit&redlink=1" class="gmail-m_5617670222044427010gmail-new" title="Key:plot number (page does not exist)" target="_blank">plot_number</a>=110007</tt></dd><dd><tt style="background:rgb(238,238,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%" dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_5617670222044427010gmail-mw-content-ltr"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:site_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="gmail-m_5617670222044427010gmail-new" title="Key:site name (page does not exist)" target="_blank">site_name</a>=LUDGATE HILL</tt></dd><dd><tt style="background:rgb(238,238,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%" dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_5617670222044427010gmail-mw-content-ltr"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:ward&action=edit&redlink=1" class="gmail-m_5617670222044427010gmail-new" title="Key:ward (page does not exist)" target="_blank">ward</a>=Ladywood</tt></dd><dd><tt style="background:rgb(238,238,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%" dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_5617670222044427010gmail-mw-content-ltr"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:constituency&action=edit&redlink=1" class="gmail-m_5617670222044427010gmail-new" title="Key:constituency (page does not exist)" target="_blank">constituency</a>=City Centre</tt></dd></dl>
<ul><li> Areas: ward, and constituency tags describe the <i>area</i> a
tree is in. That is not a normal thing to do with tags on many nodes. A
lot of data which ordinarily should be determined by a data user (if
they require it) by geo-querying boundaries information. These tags will
have a data update problems when the political boundaries change <i><b>The
local community decided some years ago not to add political boundaries,
so there is currenty no other way of querying the tree data by this
attribute. This will need revisiting once the boundary changes are in
effect</b></i></li><li> 'site_name' key which contains the street name written in all
capitals. Did this need importing, and if so, did it have to be in
capitals? <i><b>Enables the average joe/jane to query data by street name. Is the use
of capitals a problem apart from being ugly? Maybe searches are
case-sensitive? The downoaded dateset used for import has been edited so
that this field is "Properly Cased" so any new imports won't be
affected. Can also bulk edit existing imported data</b></i> </li><li> 'usrn' appears to be an identifier (<a rel="nofollow" class="gmail-m_5617670222044427010external gmail-m_5617670222044427010gmail-text" href="https://data.gov.uk/dataset/national-address-gazetteer" target="_blank">Unique Street Reference Number</a>). The purpose for this should be documented. Perhaps local_ref or ref:usrn should have been used. <i><b>usrn
is indeed Unique Street Reference No. Its purpose is documented in the
link and is a national standard for referencing streets.</b></i> </li><li> 'height' values are formatted in a non-standard way (See <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:height" title="Key:height" target="_blank">Key:height</a>) <i><b>Is
this a problem? Not everything is recorded to a standard. If there is
insistence on a standard then it can be fixed e.g by tagging the
existing data as height:range and tagging with height =x where x= the
nearest whole number at the upper end of the range</b></i></li><li> species but no genus <i><b>????? See example above which uses normal binomial name of genus and species (and includes in this case a cultivar)</b></i></li></ul></div>