[Imports] Ottawa, Canada Tree Import

[Denis Carriere]

All the priority concerns mentioned above have been resolved in the most
recent wiki updates.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa/Import/Trees

Expect this import to start very shortly.

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*Denis Carriere*
*GIS Software & Systems Specialist*

On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 6:26 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

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>
> 2017-07-06 11:33 GMT+02:00 Christoph Hormann <osm at imagico.de>:
>
>>   Note regarding diameter vs. circumference - i was
>> suggesting to use the established pre-existing tag but in principle you
>> are free to use any tags you like
>> (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Any_tags_you_like) - but you need
>> to document them on the wiki (which is why i complained about use of an
>> undocumented tag).
>
>
>
>
> I tend to disagree on the "any tag you like" for imports. It's OK for
> mappers to use any tag they like, but imports have the power to heavily
> distort any usage statistics (which are the principal arguments in both,
> discussions with the rendering stylesheet maintainers, as well as in case
> of attemps to unify different tags with the same meaning), and people will
> often look at these statistics when deciding which tag to use for a certain
> feature (especially when there's no documentation). One person could easily
> "override"/"outplay" the work of hundreds or thousands individual mappers,
> with the click of an import, hence introducing tag sprawl, incertainty and
> reducing uniformity.
>
> Btw.: the page you linked says in the first paragraph: "So you've followed good
> practice <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice> and searched
> the Map Features <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features>, Proposed
> features <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features>, Rejected
> features <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Rejected_features>, Proposed
> Relations
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Proposed_relations> and mailing
> lists' archives
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contact#Mailing_lists> and still
> can't find a tag for what you'd like to map?".
> In this case (mapping the size of a tree trunk), there is already a tag
> for what he wants to map, so the page doesn't seem to apply anyway. And
> later on it says: "you SHOULD create a proposal
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features> for your feature,
> if:
>
>    1. Your feature is of general interest,...."
>
>
> So rather than just "using" the tag, a proposal should be prepared if
> there wasn't an established tag already.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
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