[Imports] Importing fuel stations in UK and future similar imports

[Christoph Hormann]

On Thursday 11 May 2017, Ilya Zverev wrote:
>
> The import is done with the OSM Conflator script. It matches dataset
> points to all amenity=fuel nodes and polygons inside a 50 meter
> radius.

So if current mapping in OSM is off more than 50m you get duplicates?

What do you do if the location you want to add a node at is in the 
middle of a road or a lake as mapped in OSM?

> If found, the object is not moved, but tags are updated from 
> the dataset. The object gets correct opening hours, uniform brand and
> operator tags, and so on.

So if Shell 'knows' a station opens at 8 am although mappers have 
verified locally that it actually is not open before 8:15 you replace 
that information with the 'correct' one?

> Every object is given a "ref:navads_shell" tag with an identifier,
> which will later be used for updating the data.

I think we long ago established that proprietary IDs not verifiable by 
mappers have no place in OSM.

> After this import there will be others of similar nature and quality.

To be clear - import review is always for the specific import as 
planned, there is no carte blanche for future supposedly similar 
imports.

In any case you need to follow the import guidelines which means you 
have to write a page on the OSM wiki documenting your import plans (in 
particular what tags to use) and you have to make clear the data you 
want to import is either published under a compatible license or 
document the owner of the data has given explicit permission for use in 
OSM.

> Uploading will be done with a dedicated account (not created yet).
> The NavAds company specializes in putting businesses on maps, and we
> are helping them to include OpenStreetMap in their choice of target
> maps. I hope you are okay with this.

Who is 'we' here?

Overall and to be perfectly honest i hope you set aside a decent 
fraction of what they are paying you to donate to the OSM project as 
compensation for the review of a half baked import plan you present 
here. ;-)

-- 
Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/