[Imports] Dutch railway data import

Mateusz Konieczny matkoniecz at gmail.com
Sun Mar 22 07:00:38 UTC 2015


"changing not allowed" tags are unacceptable.

How merging with existing data (I guess that at least some of imported
object are already mapped) will be solved?

2015-03-22 1:05 GMT+01:00 Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>:

> Hi,
>
> On 03/21/2015 10:45 PM, JJJ Wegdam wrote:
> > For the objects that qualify for an easy import, I made the attached
> > proposal.
>
> I vehemently object to the concept of (as given in your proposed
> "note:general" tags)
>
> "[allways] CAUTION: this object's geometry is part of a professional
> dataset. Please do not alter without notifying the uploader."
>
> You have two choices. Either you import data into OSM, then OSM and its
> mappers take ownership and are free to do with the data whatever they
> think makes sense.
>
> Or you keep the data out of OSM, and negotiate with OpenRailwayMap to
> make ProRail data visible in an overlay.
>
> Adding data to OSM with a note that is designed to *discourage* mappers
> from changing it (or requesting that mappers ask someone before changing
> it) is not acceptable.
>
> OSM must not be abused as a pure delivery vehicle for third-party data.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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