[Imports] Seychelles Building Import

[Rafael Avila Coya]

Hi, Michael:

Thank you for submitting this import for review, and good luck in 
building a local OSM community in the Seychelles!

I can't find the data license for both sources when clicking in their 
respective links in the wiki. Could you point us to where we can find 
them? Making sure that the license is ODbL compatible is key before 
proceeding with the import.

As for the import itself, it looks good quality and well organized. Some 
issues/improvements I would add:

1. I can't see any link to the original data file(s).

2. After checking some of the OSM data for the Seychelles, I see that at 
least roads and some buildings seem to have been traced against Bing 
imagery, so I wonder if it would be better to align the buildings to be 
imported with that imagery provider too. But not sure if this would be 
convenient or not. I'd like more opinions on this.

3. Running the JOSM validator over the seychelles_buildings.osm, it 
gives 4 crossing buildings that should be corrected before the import.

4. I would strongly recommend that you add these two tags to the 
changeset tags:

type=import
url=https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Seychelles_Building_Import

That way, people will be able to easily know that the data have been 
imported following the import guidelines.

Cheers, and thank you again,

Rafael.

On 05/08/18 09:51, Michael Wagner wrote:
> Dear OSM Community,
> 
> I intend to upload building outlines and relating tags for the inner 
> islands of the Seychelles, contributed by the Centre for GIS and the 
> National Bureau of Statistics of the Seychelles under the ODbL.
> I followed the Import Guidelines, added an entry to the Import Catalogue 
> and created a relating wiki page:
> 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Seychelles_Building_Import
> 
> Please note that there is basically no OSM community yet in the 
> Seychelles but we (friends, colleagues and myself) are trying to 
> establish one. We have a one-week mapathon event with secondary school 
> teachers and students from August 27 to September 1 which is our first 
> major attempt to make OSM known to a wider range of people here in the 
> Seychelles. Having the building outlines I intend to import available in 
> OSM would facilitate our mapathon a lot and the data collection teams 
> could focus on collecting building details (and other features) rather 
> than tracing building outlines.
> 
> I have created a dedicated user account that will be used only for the 
> import.
> 
> I would be happy to receive any feedback from your side.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> Michael Wagner
> Geospatial Software Developer and Consultant
> allspatial - Geospatial Software and Services
> P.O. Box 4122, Anse Royale
> Mahe / Republic of Seychelles
> 
> Web: https://www.allspatial.sc
> Email:  mwagner at allspatial.info <mailto:mwagner at allspatial.info>
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> 
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