[Imports] Microsoft Buildings Import Inquiry

[Andy M]

Just want to second Martin's observation here. 

The main purposes of import policies are related to both licensing review as well as reviewing the overall plan of the import: how the data will be conflated, how any data fields will be translated with tags, and QA/validation to ensure the data is integrated well within OSM. 

The additional point I'd make is that *any* imported data should be reviewed by the person importing it, so this doesn't create any sort of distinction when importing data into OSM from a 3rd party source.  Granted, you may not review each Individual building footprint, but one should at least "eyeball" it to make sure nothing egregious goes undetected. 

For the original question on Microsoft building footprints, there are a number of existing projects on the Wiki (such as the one here in Dallas) that could serve as a template for any other import project.

-Andrew

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From: dieterdreist at gmail.com
Sent: February 14, 2019 11:12 AM
To: amorley at protonmail.com
Cc: rory at technomancy.org; imports at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Imports] Microsoft Buildings Import Inquiry


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> On 14. Feb 2019, at 17:57, Angela Morley via Imports <imports at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>
> 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.


data from third parties which isn’t in the public domain is always a liability for OSM, because it might be incompatible with a future license as codified in the contributor terms (if anybody still believes in a possible license change in the future), and it may taint other contributions that build upon it. Even cc0 is such a liability because the data publisher does not guarantee that it is free of rights.

Therefore the community should retain the right to refuse it.

Cheers, Martin
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