[Imports] Import guidelines - official or not? was: [Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

[Jeff Meyer]

Hi Frederik -

Perhaps a poor choice of words on my part. I'm actually less concerned with
the "official" guidelines and am curious *which* guidelines are referenced
here:

http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Data_Working_Group states that one of the
DWG's tasks is:

   - Detecting and stopping vandalism and imports that to not comply with
   guidelines.

Can you provide a link to the guidelines the DWG uses?

<code>% which guidelines</code> (source code, preferably)

Please note that this guidelines on this page (
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines) are the ones cited by
DWG members when they request sysadmins to place blocks on accounts that
are importing, but are not import-specific.

As for the word "official," it was only a word in the email snippet I
forwarded to you. I've included this snippet Clearly, there is some
confusion in the community over the matter of which guidelines the DWG
uses. (See Pieren's note, where I believe he meant to say, "It is *not*
easy to speak on behalf of the community.") I believe the DWG could help
reduce this confusion with a little more clarity. It would also help the US
import group's efforts to know what they should reference as a baseline for
discussion.

Thanks,
Jeff

On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>
> wrote:
>
> > But at least if you follow the
> > guidelines you have proven that you can read and are willing to engage
> with
> > the community which is a good sign.
>
> But even when the "community" disagrees with one of the guideline
> requirements, like the separate user account in all circumstances, the
> DWG will ignore it. So, I find Jeff's statement "DWG's import
> guideline" completely true since your message is telling us that the
> final word will be in the DWG hands : "following them does not give
> you an automatic right to make an import". Most of the requirements
> are "common sens", e.g. license compatibility, integration with
> existing, interest of the new data. But it is very easy to speak in
> the name of the community, even as OSMF board and DWG member. Btw, in
> which other system do we find the same person being part of the
> legislative, judiciary and executive bodies ?
>
> Pieren
>



-- 
Jeff Meyer
Global World History Atlas
www.gwhat.org
jeff at gwhat.org
206-676-2347
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/imports/attachments/20121231/8e1fb5e0/attachment.html>