[Imports] Reducing primary key damage (Branch from OpenMetaMap discussion)
Bryce Nesbitt
bryce2 at obviously.com
Wed Aug 24 17:19:15 UTC 2011
>> A simple example is that often I'll see a POI node, and I'll go ahead
>> and draw the building outline and put the data on the building. I draw
>> the building and delete the node.
> Good case. Do you just delete the node without checking whether it has useful tags and relations which need to be copied to the polygon?
Here's a case where a tool fix could do a world of good.
The Potlatch/2 "R" shortcut does not work to copy tags from a node to a way.
Converting a POI node to a building outline is thus a skilled task if
you don't want to damage the original tags.
Imagine instead two new icons in the bottom right corner of Potlatch/2:
Convert node --> way
Convert way --> node
Which preserve tags. The GNIS
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:USGS_GNIS> import data would
benefit greatly. Potlatch mappers could take all those point features
and turn them into outlines, but not disturb the most important keys.
I'd even like to see a feature in the API to "lock" certain keys. At
the time of import you could declare certain keys (e.g.
*gnis:feature_id*) as read-only. The API would reject an attempt to
modify those fields. Of course you could still delete the entire
feature, but I think it would be step to preserving data needed for
conflation.
Would import folks get behind improvements to Potlatch to reduce damage
to imported features?
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