[Imports] Making the current guidelines/code of conduct about imports/automated|mechanical edits clearer and merged

[sly (sylvain letuffe)]

On vendredi 21 décembre 2012, Robert Coup wrote:
> What Glen is referring to is what we're doing in New Zealand:
> 
>    - A lot of diverse layers, many small, some large.
>    - Community tagging/approval process for each layer
>    - User checkouts of a specific layer + geographical area, limited by
>    number of features
>    - Automated generation of .osm files for each checkout
>    - Manual merging with any existing features in JOSM; deciding "best";
>    merging tags; verifying with imagery; etc. Upload results to OSM.
>    - Mark checkout as approved, move onto the next one
> 
> So I guess "managed" means "no bots; no automated uploads;
> software-assisted generation of .osm files, then manual merging process"

I would say that the current DWG "opinion", is that most (if not all) imports 
need a 2nd account.
A tolerance for low scale, low number and when it is believed that a review 
and cross-checking with other sources was done in every cases.
The goal in mind also being that a revert/redact is much easier to handle 
(because of the tools we use) if manual edits and automated edits aren't 
merged in the same account.
My guess would then be "yes", your imports needs a 2nd account as the current 
practice currently is.


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