[Imports] Bad address import into Albuquerque… again

[Toby Murray]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Samat K Jain <lists at samat.org> wrote:
> Does anyone know if this fellow…
>
>   http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/barrycarter/edits
>
> consulted the imports list/anyone before doing his imports? I can't find any
> record of discussion.
>
> The City of Albuquerque has a great public-domain address point dataset.
> Except, it uses a different schema than OSM and is *worthless* to import
> as-is into OSM. Which unfortunately hasn't stopped people. See:
>
>   http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/1813288475
>
> Richard Weait previously removed this same dataset back in December:
>
>
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2011-December/007113.html
>
> I'm waiting on the original mapper to respond, but I don't think there's any
> other way to proceed other than a revert.

I don't recall any consultation of this list so I'd say it is
definitely a prime candidate for a revert. New user, didn't consult,
didn't use a sensible OSM tagging scheme. Seems like he thought OSM is
just a GIS dumping ground.

Toby