[Imports] NOAA Imports

[Jeff Meyer]

Hi Sailor Jerry -

Love your rum!

If you haven't seen this page, it should contain most of Greg's questions:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines

If it doesn't contain some of Greg's questions, please add 'em in.

Also - there's a template for an import web page at:

If you cut and paste the wiki text from this to your page & fill it out,
you should also have covered plenty of these bases.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Plan_Outline

Again, if it doesn't cover some of Greg's points, please fix it so it does.

Thanks!
Jeff


On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:

>
> Sailor Jerry <sailorjerry at scmarinetech.com> writes:
>
> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NOAA_ENC_Direct_to_GIS_Import
> >
> > Any suggestions and concerns are greatly appreciated.
> >
> > I will use this account http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Sailor%20Jerryfor
> > this import.
>
> The import page is missing a lot of explanations.  Specifically, I would
> suggest adding at least:
>
>   a more precise description of the source data; that points to a page
>   with a lot of stuff on it
>
>   an explanation of why this data is compatible with the CT
>
>   an explanation of your evaluation of the accuracy of the source data
>
>   pointers to the preprocessed data files in osm format that you plan to
>   upload
>
>   how you plan to avoid conflicts with data already present in osm
>   (typically, there is some process of not adding a node if the node is
>   already there, and leaving the hard cases for manual inpsection)
>
>   what tool will be used for upload, and how that can be reverted if
>   trouble
>
>   do you have a staged plan for doing a bit and taking a pause while
>   people look for trouble?
>
>   the account does not look like an import-only account.  Surely you
>   intend to manually map as well, so perhaps you should register
>   Sailor%20Jerry-import-noaa or some such for the import.  You may also
>   want to do a bit more manual mapping before importing.  If you have
>   another account, it seems good to have the import account point to
>   that account so that people can connect the importer with the regular
>   mapper.
>
> I would also suggest that you review the last few months of archives.
>
> It looks like there are already some uploads of imported data going on,
> which is contrary to the propose/review cycle for automated edits.
>
> (I'm not conceptually opposed to imports, but they are very hard to get
> right.)
>
> Greg
>
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