[Imports] City of Seattle imports

[Glen Barnes]

Serge,

I think you missed the line:

"More news to follow."

>From what I read it is a first email to the list introducing the import and saying what they are working on. Maybe I'm misreading but I read your response as being a bit negative. It looks as though Jeff has discussed/is discussing it with his local community "A group of Seattle OSM'ers (led by Cliff Snow) are getting together to discuss the methods for importing and double-checking the information.  http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Seattle/events/93524692/" 

And he is following the guidelines (the key being 'appropriate local communities'):

"Discuss your import on the imports at openstreetmap.org mailing list and with appropriate local communities. Many local communities have their own wiki pages and/or a Mailing lists. Coordinate with other people with similar plans."

Thanks,
Glen

On 4/12/2012, at 11:30 AM, Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Jeff Meyer <jeff at gwhat.org> wrote:
>> All -
>> 
>> The city of Seattle has recently granted permission to use data found at
>> data.seattle.gov in OpenStreetMap.
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#City_of_Seattle.2C_Washington
>> 
>> A group of Seattle OSM'ers (led by Cliff Snow) are getting together to
>> discuss the methods for importing and double-checking the information.
>> http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Seattle/events/93524692/
> 
> 
>> The current plan is to focus on addresses and building outlines.
>> Sources are currently suggested to be tagged as:
>> source:addr=data.seattle.gov
>> source:path=data.seattle.gov
>> so as to accomodate other sourcing information for those points and ways, as
>> appropriate.
> 
> source tags are not really appropriate for indivdual elements, but
> should be on the changeset, but more importantly, the specific
> datasets should be referenced, as data.seattle.gov doesn't talk about
> the version of the data, or even what dataset it is.
> 
>> Data has been converted from shape to osm using pnorman's ogr2osm python
>> scripts and some translation instructions Cliff has put together.
> 
> Where is the source of your transformation scripts?
> Where are the specific data files you're transforming?
> How will you handle object conflation?
> 
>> More news to follow. Please advise of any concerns.
> 
> I have many concerns, some of which are discussed above, but more
> generally, you seem to not have discussed this with the greater OSM
> community, including the talk-us list.
> 
> Imports are very sensitive and should not be taken without an
> incredible amount of thought and planning, and a lot of community
> involvement.
> 
> - Serge
> 
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