[Imports] Bad imports

[Sander Deryckere]

I removed the procedure part (apart from who to notify), and changed the
wiki page in just a listing of imports that should be handled or clarified.
My main problem with just "solving it myself" is that I don't find myself
qualified to say the quality of certain imported data is too bad. So I
tried to give the community some votes.

But I guess in most cases, it will be pretty clear how to fix it so it can
be decided inside the discussion.

Thanks for helping with the data.

Regards,
Sander

2016-01-25 2:42 GMT+01:00 Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com>:

> Hi
>
> Thanks for investigating the data issues Sander. As I did when you
> contacted me last week, I'll explain the issues here as I see them, and
> discuss some simple ways I'll see to getting them fixed.
>
> On the "Bad Imports" page, this new process is unnecessary. There is
> already a substantial process for managing imports and resolving data
> issues, documented in the wiki and managed by the DWG.
>
> On the data in Enugu, my role in the original import was to advise
> colleagues involved directly in the data collection and import, and then to
> make some repairs to the roads (that is why I appear as the first editor of
> many features). There are two issues.
>
> One is "living_street". My understanding is that they used "living_street"
> in cases of unpaved residential roads, because there is a great amount of
> activity directly on these roads, and "resembled" living streets in the EU.
> There is no legal definition of living street in Nigeria. At the time of
> the import, I didn't totally agree with the classification, but didn't
> think it that important. Given the question on classification now, I think
> it's best to improve this, and will do so, by changing classification to
> residential road.
>
> Second, there are a good number of tags on POI that should not have been
> included in a related import of Enugu (for example
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2460130808/history). The simple
> solution here is to identify those tags, and remove them, and I will see to
> this as well.
>
> -Mikel
>
> * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
>
>
> On Sunday, January 24, 2016 6:23 PM, Daniel O'Connor <
> daniel.oconnor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Re Enugu, see
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/imports/2013-August/002112.html
> for some of the discussion around this data.
>
> Mikel Maron (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Mikel) is the chap
> with the main user account for the roads data.
>
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 3:04 AM, Sander Deryckere <sanderd17 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> 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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