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1. Nov 2018 15:39 by <a href="mailto:pietervdvn@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pietervdvn@gmail.com</a>:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div><span class="gmail-author-a-cz67zz90zo5jz86zz83zz75zz85zz87zz82zz80zh99">In case this was not clear befor</span><span class="gmail-author-a-wz87zz90zz66zz82zt3itz84z5r8z80z4z69z">e:</span><span class="gmail-author-a-cz67zz90zo5jz86zz83zz75zz85zz87zz82zz80zh99"> this is _not_ a flat import where all the data is dumped into OSM automatically. This is an effort of the Belgian community, where mappers select a subset of the data they choose to integrate piecemeal, usually one street at a time. The data is loaded in JOSM and checked against the aerial imagery involving the mapper's common sense.</span></div></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for doing it this way!</p><p> </p><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div><div id="gmail-magicdomid22" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-dz78zz77zz84z80jwz67z68t65f7">We aren't afraid that people will refrain from editing source-tagged objects: new users (using </span><span class="gmail-author-a-wz87zz90zz66zz82zt3itz84z5r8z80z4z69z">the</span><span class="gmail-author-a-cz67zz90zo5jz86zz83zz75zz85zz87zz82zz80zh99"> iD editor</span><span class="gmail-author-a-dz78zz77zz84z80jwz67z68t65f7">) will probably not notice those tags in the first place; advanced users will know about them. And intermediate users will probably look them up.</span></div></div></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>That is why documenting this that on OSM wiki is a a good idea</p><p><br /></p><p>(something simple like <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:teryt:terc" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:teryt:terc</a> should be sufficient).<br /></p><p> <br /></p><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div><div id="gmail-magicdomid452" class="gmail-ace-line"><ul class="gmail-list-bullet1"><li><span class="gmail-author-a-cz67zz90zo5jz86zz83zz75zz85zz87zz82zz80zh99">We don't want to centralize the link between OSM and GRB. There isn't one single person doing the import, it's something several people in the community</span><span class="gmail-author-a-wz75zz89zaz68zz88ziz87z7z122zz83z95z83zwh"> work on</span><span class="gmail-author-a-cz67zz90zo5jz86zz83zz75zz85zz87zz82zz80zh99">. Anyone could host the tool if its current maintainer disappears. </span></li></ul></div></div></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>If it is actually used in way where a third-party database would not suffice - then sorry for the noise.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is probably result of discovering within recent months several cases of people dumping</p><p><br /></p><p>into OSM undiscussed, useless and undocumented tags and then I complain indirectly about problem</p><p><br /></p><p>to people who bothered to document their import.</p> </body>
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