[Imports] Import Guidance

[SteveC]

Cool stuff Andy

Few things 

* grep for 'data is cannot' broken sentence
* make the links clickable
* 'confirm with local mappers' should IMHO say mailing list AND contacting local mappers not OR
* Change the guidance to require community participation in improving the data not just leaving laying about?
* Perhaps have three levels of statements, 'generally we do' statements in normal text, 'really you should do this or you will feel pain' in italic and 'you must do this or die' in bold... or something. Otherwise newbies will just cop out of anything they as they see fit?

Yours &c.

Steve


On Nov 16, 2009, at 7:59 AM, Andy Allan wrote:
> 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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