[OSM-dev] A new take on the "mutable" idea

[marcus.wolschon at googlemail.com]

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:38:48 +0200, Jochen Topf <jochen at remote.org> wrote:
> Currently we have a special database for GPS tracks. This is part of our
> source
> data. Everybody can use it to check his own tracks against other peoples
> tracks
> and both against the main OSM data. Maybe we should extend this model to
> other
> data sources. Say, you import all the roads in one country. The first
step
> could be to load this into a "source" database. Like with the GPS tracks,
> it
> would contains the original data and that would never change. Then the
> normal
> data conversion and import into the mail OSM database is done.


Sounds like a really good idea for handling imports and the human review
.process involved.

Marcus