[Imports] import guideline wiki minor comments, dev account confusing

[Paul Norman]

> From: Greg Troxel [mailto:gdt at ir.bbn.com]
> Subject: [Imports] import guideline wiki minor comments, dev account
> confusing
> 
> 
> 1) At:
> 
>   https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import
> 
> it talks of an import catalog.  It would be nice to have Category:import
> or some such on all import discussion pages, and a link to the category
> page, since the pages are a richer description than a line in the table.

If someone wants to clean up
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue and create templates and
tables that automatically update it and document it and convert the existing
data I would welcome it. It might be worth looking at how the tables for
mobile software are generated from the individual software's pages.

> 3) I understand the duty to be able to revert if things go wrong.
> At
> 
>    https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Revert
> 	
> there probably should be discussion of the issue with large changesets
> From JOSM not being handled by the JOSM reverter.

The revert documentation needs rewriting, much of it is from 2009. I'm not a
wiki or docs person so I wouldn't be the one to improve it, but it does need
to be someone with technical knowledge.

> 4) The section about using JOSM for uploads at:
> 
>   https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Software
> 
> does not caution about the problem with revert plugin and the >10K
> changeset.
> 
> So I wonder if it's better to use an upload script that handles errors
> better, after doing the quality control in JOSM.  Or maybe it isn't?

It is possible to edit in JOSM then upload with command line scripts. I
would not want to attempt it without understanding all the technical details
of http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_0.6#Changesets_2, the process is
rather complicated and involves very low-level scripts.

We could use better documentation about the uploading process too. There is
no problem with the revert plugin and large changesets, it's the API
changeset /download call which times out.

> 6) The dev server page is a bit confusing:
> 
>   https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Using_the_dev_server
> 	
> That seems to be about getting shell accounts, and indicates approval is
> needed (makes sense), but it doesn't explain the plan for user
> accounts on the dev instance.   I think the concept is that anyone can
> sign up, and that no shell account is needed, and it's perfectly fine to
> put bits into the server, and the server will be reset to a copy of the
> real database occasionally (and unpredictably).   A brief section
> pointing to
> 
>   http://master.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/
> 
> and explaining this would be helpful.  Or perhaps it's someplace else
> already.

That page about the dev server, not the dev APIs. It'd be wrong to add dev
API information there. The only page with information on the dev APIs afaik
is http://apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/. I imagine there should be a wiki page
with more information.

The dev APIs are not reset to data from the live DB.