[Imports] Bad imports

[Sander Deryckere]

Meanwhile I contacted some users and documented the contacts in the wiki.

If anyone finds other harmful imports, or has an opinion on the mentioned
imports, please add them to the wiki.

Thanks,
Sander

2016-01-24 15:53 GMT+01:00 Sander Deryckere <sanderd17 at gmail.com>:

> I recently discovered a number of bad imports, but found out it's hard to
> discuss those, and keep track of those discussions, as there's no central
> platform where that could happen.
>
> There are f.e. changeset discussions, but when the importer doesn't
> answer, you don't get notified anymore, and nobody else will keep an eye on
> it.
>
> So I started a wiki page to gather information about bad imports, together
> with an initial procedure to handle those (giving some times to allow
> discussion and cleanups).
>
> see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bad_imports
>
> I already documented some bad imports there, but not yet who I contacted
> (though I contacted two importers via changeset messages, and that will be
> hard to find back if they don't react).
>
> If any of you find bad imports, I should ask you to also add them to the
> list, and regularly keep an eye on the list. When that list gets used more
> often, we won't lose track of those discussions anymore.
>
> If you have any remarks on the procedure, feel free to raise concerns. But
> I like some hard dates as else people wonder whether it would be ok to
> revert it already or not. And I think the current terms are reasonable.
>
> Regards,
> Sander
>
>
>
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