[OSM-dev] ESRI article sent by a friend

[John Smith]

On 11 July 2010 07:32, Thomas Emge <temge at esri.com> wrote:
> As far as (bulk) imports are concerned that functionality is missing as well (intentionally). As Lennard mentioned one should be careful to just take a shapefile and hit import. We would like to know if import capability is of  interest and why. Just the fact that you want to upload your county's parcel data is not enough - or maybe it is, I don't know. If users are interested in doing so we will add a tool in  the future.

Some like to think there is 2 types of importing, implopping is where
people blindly upload data without checking what they are importing or
what already exists, then there is another type of importing,
selectively importing, where selective features are imported, usually
by having multiple layers and those features are copied and pasted
between layers.