[Imports] [Cat2Osm2] Tool for exporting Spanish Cadastre data in OSM suitable format

[Glen Barnes]

On 20/01/2013, at 6:19 PM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:

> 
>>> How were the tag translations arrived at?
>> 
>> The translation tags was made from:
>> - What catastro documentation said:
>> 
>> http://www.catastro.meh.es/pdf/formatos_intercambio/catastro_fin_cat_200
>> 6.pdf.
>> - What experts mappers have said. In fact, the pages have been almost
>> completely filled by expert mappers from the Spanish community.
>> - What persons close to the catastro office have said to us.
>> - Obviously, our own experience using this data in other projects.
> 
> It sounds like you are relying on the catastro documentation without
> checking each feature type with another source. This is an extremely bad
> idea for two major reasons:

I wouldn't say that. If you read above they have done lots of other checking. Previous experience, other experts and internal discussions with the Catastro Office. Sounds to me like they've done a good job of verifying the data with reality.