<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">>>>> De :</span></b> Richard Fairhurst <richard@systemed.net></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">>>>></span></b></font>Because it's not just about scripts and
bots. The Cadastre situation, which<br><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">>>>></span></b></font>started all of this off, is often people loading .osm files into JOSM,<br><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">>>>></span></b></font>running a quick validator check over it, and uploading. In terms of impact<br><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">>>>></span></b></font>on the map and on the community, there is no significant difference between<br><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">>>>></span></b></font>this and the same operation using upload.py.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier
New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">What you mention is normally and exception.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">The french wiki page about cadastre building integration explicitely mention that data should be checked carrefully and merged with the existing to keep database coherency and quality.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">The french community has also some tools to detect people doing what you mention and often perform a revert of the changeset, contact the contributor to explain that there are some quality requirements.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier
New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Clean cadastre integration is a process that take quite a long time when done correctly and that could not be automated, that's why it has been decided to not perform a national automated import like CLC but rather to rely on contributors which do that city by city</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Cheers</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Julien<br> </div><div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16,
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