[Imports] Dutch railway data import

[Sander Deryckere]

Completely agree with the reactions to the "Do not touch" message. OSM data
is supposed to be touched.

Apart from that, it seems you're just doing a database dump to OSM, with
objects that you hope that aren't present in OSM yet. Did you investigate
if some are present? And once the initial dump is over, how will you handle
future updates (then you can't just dump data). Even more important, what
if the OSM data was altered in some way (deleted, tags modified), how will
you handle that?

And as a last note, translated messages aren't needed IMO. If the import
points to a clean wiki page (and not to a mailing thread that has an
attachment in some obscure, supposedly standardised file format), then the
wiki page could contain translations of the different possible messages.
I'd opt for Dutch messages, since that's the language local OSM users will
probably know best.

Regards,
Sander

2015-03-22 8:06 GMT+01:00 Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at gmail.com>:

> Some of tags used in import are undocumented.
> For example
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Dpower_supply and
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:railway:electricity:jumpering
> are missing (and I checked only status of these two keys).
>
> Importing undocumented tags is a bad idea for multiple reasons.
>
>
> 2015-03-21 22:45 GMT+01:00 JJJ Wegdam <jwegdam at me.com>:
>
>> Dear fellow mappers,
>>
>> a few weeks ago, I received permission from the Dutch rail infrastructure
>> owner (ProRail) to share their rail GIS data with OSM. Some objects in this
>> dataset obviously can't just simply be imported (think of precise ProRail
>> railway geometry vs existing OSM ways with all their tags and relations)
>> but other objects can be imported quite easily.
>> For the objects that qualify for an easy import, I made the attached
>> proposal. In accordance with the import guidelines
>> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines>, the proposal has
>> already been discussed with the Dutch community through the forum and
>> through the talk-NL mailing list. The attached proposal is a final
>> selection of this discussion.
>> I look forward to your comments.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Jeroen Wegdam
>> Railway Engineering student
>>
>> PS: note that this import is mainly aiming at OpenRailwayMap
>> <http://openrailwaymap.org>
>>
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