[Imports] Importing Kerala, India road network from Facebook's ML generated data

[Christoph Hormann]

On Wednesday 29 August 2018, muzirian wrote:
> This will be a part of Facebook's existing AI assisted road mapping
> project. [...]

That import had been discussed only for Thailand and as clearly 
mentioned back then import reviews are never a carte blanche.  This was 
mentioned specifically because the intention of Facebook to in the 
future piggy back other stuff onto this was pretty obvious. A review 
only reviews what has been specifically presented - nothing more.

Also note that there is no such things as approval of import plans here.  
There is only the mandatory review possibly resulting in suggestions 
what to change with the plans.  The importer still carries full 
responsibility for the import.  In case of the Facebook Thailand road 
import it should also be noted that the request to present the data to 
be imported in advance which was considered a necessary requirement to 
actually perform an import review was denied by Facebook - meaning they 
essentially weaseled around the import guidelines, making an import 
review request but essentially denying the OSM community the 
possibility to substantially perform the review.  You would be well 
advised not to take Facebook as an example here - they could write off 
loosing all good faith of the OSM community as losses, you probably 
can't.

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Christoph Hormann
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