[Imports] Fwd: [Talk-us] Import of EPA data

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

The delete is running now.

I am thinking that we absolutely need to be able to have independent
layers in OSM.
We need the technology to be able import data like this and have it
editable separate from the main layer.

I will be setting up a OSM server somewhere (anyone want to host?) to
hold this data.

mike

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Emilie Laffray
<emilie.laffray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 2009/12/18 jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com>
>>
>> Yes, I am working on the update script as we speak.
>> But I offered to delete the data from the beginning.
>> Also, I can do this in josm and have done it already.
>>
>> If there are changes then I will just leave them. Only version 1 will
>> be deleted.
>>
>
> Thanks for that.
>
>>
>> Thanks. I have lots of experience in FLOSS projects and know that
>> tempers can get excited when you cannot see the person who you are
>> yelling at.
>>
>> It is important to also realise that being open means that many
>> embarrasing things are out in the open.
>>
>> The most important thing in such a project is to have a long term
>> commitment to making things better, I have that.
>>
>> I am happy to do what I can.
>
> If there is anything that can be said about you here, it is that you have
> been overenthusiastic about importing data that you found.

Yes,and all my other imports worked so far....

>You clearly have
> proven that you were willing to correct your errors and willing to recognize
> them. There is nothing embarrassing here.
> For example, a project like this
> http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/clc/cgi-bin/index.py could be useful. For the
> Corine import, some polygons were not imported automatically because they
> were overlapping with current feature or they didn't contain a landuse that
> we though could be translated without having a look at. Someone in the
> community then created this map allowing everyone to easily add point
> graphically. If you had the josm remote control plugin enabled, it would
> directly open the point in JOSM allowing you to modify it if necessary
> before choosing whether to import it or not.
> It could be an interesting way of doing that EPA import. In our case, the
> polygon is stored in postgis, and the OSM file is generated on the fly.

Will look into this.


> It is at least a good thing you want to make things better, so thanks.

All the best!
mike