[Imports] Uganda Bureau of Statistics educational facilities import

[Rafael Avila Coya]

Hi, Jo:

Yes. It happens many times. As I said, it would be very nice to have a
JOSM plugin that would address switching between a list of user
accounts. My vision would be of a simple plugin that would allow to:

1) Create a list of user accounts, instead of having only place for one,
as it is with the JOSM standard Preferences.

2) Easy button in the tools bar to switch between user accounts.

3) A checkbox to decide if you want JOSM to warn you what's the user you
are using when uploading the data to OSM. That means: you hit the upload
button, and as a final step, JOSM tells you: you are uploading with
Polyglot OSM user account. Accept? (and the typical "cancel" and "Ok"
buttons).

You have contributed lots of comments and great ideas, so I am not going
to pressure you with contributing more. Anyway, although it's a bit of a
nuissance, you will get used after a while. Many of us have done this
since about 3 years ago for lots of manual imports! And, if you get a
task with say 15 schools (I did yesterday one with 147!), the time you
spend switching between user accounts is less than 1% of the total.

Cheers,

Rafael.

On 22/01/16 22:17, Jo wrote:
> I tried to use my import account. Failed to do it. The stuff that should
> have been uploaded with it, went up with my normal account. The
> subsequent non import stuff went up with my import account.
> 
> It's too much of a hassle and yes I would need to switch back and forth
> between accounts constantly.
> 
> So, I'll limit myself to doing validation work, until this silly rule
> gets finally lifted some day. I won't be holding my breath, no worries.
> 
> Polyglot
> 
> 2016-01-07 16:44 GMT+01:00 Rafael Avila Coya <ravilacoya at gmail.com
> <mailto:ravilacoya at gmail.com>>:
> 
>     Hi, Enock:
> 
>     Thank you for volunteering!
> 
>     Yes, Geoffrey has given his opinions already, and he offered something
>     very key here: help from the local OSM community.
> 
>     As I guess there are quite a number of active members in Kampala (for
>     example), it could be of unvaluable help for double checking on the
>     ground the facilities inside the city, as those are the mainly the only
>     ones hard to spot from imagery.
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>     Rafael.
> 
>     On 04/01/16 15:42, Enock Seth Nyamador wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > Very long discussion here. Glad I was able to follow. I've copied
>     > Ugandan OSMer Geoffrey of Mapping Day Uganda[1] guess you might be
>     > interested in this.
>     >
>     > Am interested in volunteering for this import.
>     >
>     > Best,
>     >
>     > 1. http://www.mappingday.com
>     >
>     > - Enock
>     > UMaT, Tarkwa
>     > enockseth.github.io <http://enockseth.github.io>
>     <http://enockseth.github.io/>
>     >
>     > On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 9:42 AM, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com <mailto:winfixit at gmail.com>
>     > <mailto:winfixit at gmail.com <mailto:winfixit at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Doing what I did in these 2 edits:
>     >     https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3925002632/history
>     >
>     >     would make the import a whole lot slower, as it would entail a lot
>     >     more research (and fiddling with Wikidata), but it would also make
>     >     the data even more useful.
>     >
>     >     If it were me, I'd add Wikidata items for each of these schools. I
>     >     can write a script that would make the process easier. I'm not sure
>     >     about license issues though. If I drag a node over Bing imagery and
>     >     upload it to Openstreetmap. Can I use those coordinates on Wikidata
>     >     if I mention the source properly? Or are they already ODBL and
>     >     therefore incompatible. That would be really annoying. It would mean
>     >     I have to make sure to add the coordinates to Wikidata first, and
>     >     only after doing that upload to Openstreetmap, but I want to mention
>     >     the source on Wikidata, so I need a reference url to the OSM object...
>     >
>     >     I think, at least for the schools with WP articles, it makes sense
>     >     to do this. For the others I think it makes sense as well, but it's
>     >     a lot more work. They would all get identifiers that way, which may
>     >     make later conflation easier.
>     >
>     >     Jo
>     >
>     >
>     >
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