[Imports] Imports Review

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

   nowadays, many imports are organised through some form of task
manager, and the proponents promise that it's going to be a distributed
task by many community members, conflation is going to be done manually,
etc. etc.

More often than not, after an import is done, nobody actually checks
what has happened. Was the import indeed performed by (ideally local)
community members with the necessary diligence? Or were a group of eager
remote mappers unleashed on the place and added 100,000 building
footprints each? Was conflation done properly as promised?

Also, proponents of an import often say things like "this is going to
encourage community participation in the local area" etc., but does it?
Nobody ever bothers to check.

It would be great if we had a process by which we would review imports
*after* the fact and perhaps even a few years later, to judge what went
well and what didn't, to learn from mistakes, or in extreme cases
perhaps even revert the whole thing when it turns out that it didn't
work out or that promises made during the initial discussion were not kept.

I'm not offering to do that (at least not beyond those imports that I
stumble across in my DWG work). Ideally it should be an ongoing review
process, but if a scientist came along looking for a study object, it
would probably also make a good scientific paper to select a sample and
study it.

Bye
Frederik

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