[Imports] import guidelines, new rules proposal

[Bryce Nesbitt]

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Jason Remillard
<remillard.jason at gmail.com>wrote:

> A "good" import results in OSM data that is indistinguishable from
> normally mapped data.
>

I'll add to that: a "good" import can be tweaked later by hand, and not
result in duplicates,overwriting,
or other bad effects.

(My "osmsync" import tries to be good: for example respecting a POI shift
of 100 meters made by hand
even if the rest of the node's keys get updated by newly imported tags).
Duplicates are a bit more of a problem: I'd love to have a JOSM feature
where I could create a proposed import, then quickly cycle through each POI
and visually check for duplicates and proper positioning.
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