[Imports] For comment: import of 532 bicycle repair station locations

[Bryce Nesbitt]

> It would be good to get something on the record from Dero that the
license is ODbL, either an email or something public would work.

Per my proposal to Dero, the ODbL statement was embedded the map source
code at http://www.dero.com/fixitmap/fixitmap.html
That counts as public, makes the backing emails irrelevant, and nobody has
to remember or document anything later.


> There are some duplicate stations in the data

Yes.  The conflation process will catch these. I'm experimenting with a 40
meter radius for duplicate flagging.
Dero's process leads to duplicates because of cell phone GPS uncertainty.



> How will it be handled if a station is imported, then a subsequent import
run finds it has been deleted?

That's a tricky one.  With the car share imports I run, if the car share
company discontinues a location, that's the final word and it gets deleted
from OSM.
Here Dero's data collection method has no real mechanism for deletion, but
ours does.
So any dead stations will be fed back to Dero as an email.
Chances are they know who they sold to in a particular city, and chances
are the right thing will happen.


>2015-01-23 4:00 GMT+01:00 Alex Barth <alex at mapbox.com>:
>Ugh, ODbL license on the source data. If there's any way to get a
different license for the imported data that'd be preferable.

What would be better than ODbL?  What downsides does ODbL have given OSM's
use of ODbL?
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