[Imports] Microsoft Buildings Import Inquiry

[Angela Morley]

In my personal opinion, I would assume items being imported in an individual fashion with human input are subject to the data license policies of OSM, but are not subject to the community imports approval process, as there's no risk mitigation to be concerned with. If something you want to add has a questionably compatible license, I would assume that would require license verification at a minimum, but this is a gray area in the current OSM policies, and should be specifically noted and revised in the import guidelines.

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On Thursday, February 14, 2019 10:52 AM, John Whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:

> By this definition any import of data that has as part of its process each item added that the item is inspected visually using the todo list is not an import.
>
> There are a lot of building outlines that are being brought in in this way currently.  Are they exempt from the import guidelines?
>
> Thanks John
>
> Rory McCann wrote on 2019-02-14 10:09 AM:
>
>> IMO a key feature of "is this an import or not?" is whether a mapper looks at each (new) object individually. If yes, then it's not an import. Opening a .osm file in JOSM, running the validator and then pressing upload is not looking at each feature individually, ie an import. Doing the above, but you use JOSM's todo plugin to (actually) look at each object, makes it not an import.
>>
>> "Has this piece of data been specifically checked by an OSMer?".
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>> On 12/02/2019 18:39, Mike N wrote:
>>
>>> Checking in - Is the process of using Microsoft Buildings which are occasionally distorted by shadows and thus all have to be manually inspected still treated as an import, or would the process be classified as a Mapathon?
>>>
>>>    Thanks,
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>>>    Mike
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