[Imports] GIS data for Laos donated as ODbl

[Paul Norman]

On 12/29/2015 8:21 AM, Ivan Garcia wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> as detailed here:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue/Laos/RoadsRiversBoundaries
>
> a private owner of the 2010 GIS data of Laos has donated to OSM with
> the ODbl license (nice christmas present for OSM community), it
> contains approx. all the 11000 villages(with Lao and romanized names),
> most of the important roads, and rivers, and the district boundaries.

They purchased a copy of the data from the Ministry? If so, they 
wouldn't normally have the rights to make such a grant. Can you add 
information about the terms of sale from the Ministry to Jasper?

> The workflow of how to proceed with the data is explained
> above(Villages, Rivers and Roads should only used as
> reference/background to map with BING/Mapbox imagery using some
> offline OSM editor like JOSM.

I recommend completely splitting away the rivers and roads part from the 
boundaries.

Quick read-through of the proposed plan

- The changeset tags need to differentiate between when handling 
boundaries, and should have tags to indicate it's an import
- source=MAPBOX & BING  is non-standard, use standard source values and 
semicolon separate them. Also, indicate the source of the import
- import=yes is becoming the standard changeset tag to indicate an import
- You mention forests, but don't propose importing any
- End of December 2015 is too soon to import, and wouldn't be adequate 
consultation even if there were *no* issues with what is being proposed

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