[Imports] Import "Schweizer Familie Feuerstellen" / Firepits Switzerland

Jóhannes Birgir Jensson joi at betra.is
Wed Oct 16 09:21:33 UTC 2019


Contacting Schweizer Familie and asking for them to release this data as open data is one option perhaps yet unexplored.


16. október 2019 kl. 9:10, skrifaði "Frederik Ramm" <frederik at remote.org>:

> Hi,
> 
> On 16.10.19 09:46, Ilja Gerhardt wrote:
> 
>>> Is this [1] your account? 10 years old and no edits. For an import, you
>>> should already have some experience in contributing to OSM.
>> 
>> Wow, what a lovely welcoming message! This really motivates me to
>> contribute and to work for the OSM project!
> 
> Agreed this is not super welcoming but you said that your user name was
> "ilja" and that you were "long time active" which at least superficially
> seems to conflict with the 0 edits in the user account. Explaining in
> which other ways you were active when you didn't edit OSM would have
> helped to avoid this misunderstanding.
> 
> The idea that some editing experience is advantageous for a successful
> import is not Joachim's invention; e.g.
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines says: "1. Gain
> familiarity with the basics of OpenStreetMap, including editing, such as
> adding details of your neighbourhood."
> 
>> ... actually not. Thank you, I won't do anything in this respect.
> 
> Well the main point of Joachim's message was that at least from the
> public statements on the web site, the data is not legal for importing
> to OSM. You make it sound as if this would have been a perfectly good
> import that sadly cannot go ahead because you were not welcomed enough.
> But if the data isn't legal to import then all the welcoming-ness and
> politeness in the world won't help make the import a success.
> 
> Do you have reason to believe that there is a legal avenue to import the
> data, or had you overlooked the license terms and do now agree that the
> data cannot be imported?
> 
> Bye
> Frederik
> 
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