<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>It's a lot of data and it's coming from an outside source, so yes it's an import. No way to get around that by calling it anything different. It's best to go through the proper channels. That way nobody can say we didn't at least try to do things the right way.<br>
<br></div>If we fall flat on our noses, so be it. I had always thought data like this is (and addresses) is something we want to have in OSM. And visiting each bus stop (or house) is simply not practical. By the time you did all of them, you'd have to start over again.<br>
<br></div>I do agree sometimes imports hurt the community, which is why I'd like to get the community involved as much as possible.<br><br>I also think we're going about this the right way. This is not a data dump. We are integrating the new data with what's already present in OSM. I often find myself improving the topology of the roads while adding stops and shelters and benches and platforms. For Flanders we have now the street names in a WMS layer, so during validation I'm also adding those for the roads I touched (adding nodes or splitting).<br>
<br></div>Unfortunately it's extremely time consuming to do it this way, but it's still more efficient than visiting 70000 bus stops all across the country and jotting down their details.<br><br></div>Jo<br></div>
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<div>I created a page to describe the import of TEC data.
Can somebody have a look at it before I send it to the
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<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/PT_TEC_Wallonie_BE_Import" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/PT_TEC_Wallonie_BE_Import</a><br>
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Ouch! I didn't expect that difficulty!<br>
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But I have a very fundamental remark.<br>
Are you really doing an import or are you providing us modified data
to ease our tagging?<br>
Would using Julien's web page be called an import?<br>
Is making the process easier more an import?<br>
Was the Walloon bus line tagging done so far an import?<br>
Is continuing it more an import?<br>
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I never looked a that problem but I think that what they're after is
huge careless data dumping.<br>
It's none of that.<br>
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So my question is: must we really declare that as an import<br>
or continue our gentle tagging business on the quiet?<br>
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<div>In the mean time I'm doing test edits, to make sure the
data conversion went properly. It looks fine, as far as I'm
concerned. Some abbreviations don't get expanded properly
yet (notably ones with a space after LE). I do those by
hand. Whoever wants to participate in adding these stops
must realise it not simply a matter of dragging them to
their proper location, but also the names need to be checked
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I told you I had thought of picking the names from OSM inside a
circle around the stop and checking the uppercase for similarity.
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<div>The zones and the calculated route_refs should be correct
by now. The village names are mostly properly converted and
accents are put back where they belong. Notify me if you
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<div>I'm always prepared to do a Google hangout in French,
English or even Dutch (for those who'd want to practice) to
explain how I set up JOSM to make the whole process more
efficient. Additional buttons on the task bar for presets
and searches. dedicated MAPCSS style, which highlights the
stops and routes you are working on and something which
creates display names from distinct tags, so the routes get
sorted in a better way in the relations list.<br>
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<div>Also make sure to check the import guidelines before
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