[Imports] Import Guidance

Andy Allan gravitystorm at gmail.com
Mon Nov 16 13:59:09 GMT 2009


Hi Imports People,

Whilst my views on imports are probably well known by now, I'm trying
to do my bit to help improve things!

The documenation on importing on the wiki is pretty sporadic -
generally better stuff at the techie end, but less in the way of
"holistic" information. I've been fixing up a lot of it over the past
few weeks - removing duplication, linking pages together etc.

As part of a couple of projects, I'd also been asked to write some
guidance on how to "do" imports properly. I've written some guidance,
mainly aimed at the "someone from a uni has their campus in a
shapefile" type of person, not really for ultra-tech
OSMers-who-already-know-it-all.

You can find the .pdf file here:
http://www.thunderflames.org/gis/Import%20Guidance.pdf

What do you folks think? If you reckon it's along the right tracks,
I'll also use it to guide my improvements to the wiki. In any case,
suggestions for improvement welcome.

Cheers,
Andy




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