[Imports] [MappingDC] DC Buildings & Addresses Import

[Brian DeRocher]

On Friday 2014 July 18 09:52:10 Richard Weait wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Brian DeRocher <brian at derocher.org> wrote:
> > I'm sorry for cross posting.  Let's keep the discussion of the import details on the MappingDC mailing list.  I just wanted the imports list to know MappingDC is getting involved.
> 
> Umm.  No.  You are not discussing an import to the "private,
> locallized, mappingDC database", but to the worldwide database of the
> OpenStreetMap community.  You must engage with the wider community to
> learn from them, and so they may learn from you.

By "database" i assume  you mean "mailing list".  Though i'd argue a mailing list is a poor resource to learn from.  Who wants to read years worth of arguments, to learn an import process?  The best place for that is the wiki.  I just added links to prior US imports and a lessons learned section to the DC import wiki page [1]

I also argue that the MappingDC mailing list is not private.  It's open to anyone.  However it is focused on DC and i take your point about it being localized and it's harder to share information with the larger community.  Would you say import-us is a better mailing list to use?  I know of one DC person who had a eureka moment when he discovered several months late, that the DC import discussion was on imports and not imports-us.

[2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DC_Buildings_%26_Addresses_Import

Brian

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