[Imports] Spanish mountain ranges import.

[Mateusz Konieczny]

7 Feb 2021, 15:25 by matheus.gomes03 at hotmail.com:

> Dear all,
>
> It came as a surprise to me this discussion, mainly because, as far as I know (I'm not Spanish but I mapped there sometimes), the Spanish data (from Instituto Geográfico Nacional) is usually very good, and the local community is doing several imports beautifully (I have yet to see a better Wiki page than the Spanish buildings import [1]).
>
Note that complaint is specifically about
diffuse, basically impossible to verify data.

Noone wants to keep building outline
data out of OSM, while there are big discussions
how to map mountain ranges and is is
something mappable in OSM at all.

I am also highly dubious about mapping
mountain ranges also manually.

>
> I understand the community concerns regarding the data (as all imports should receive some special attention), but I think there is some overreaction that is not productive. The wiki is reasonably well written, and regarding verifiability, what exactly the mappers are expecting? The Topo IGN map, per [2], shows initially that the data used to exemplify the import looks very good.
>
And what happens when someone 
wants to move imported node 5km
toward North?

In case of building it is easy to 
answer "is building XYZ at location X, Y".

Mountain ranges are much fuzzier,
making me doubt is it something 
fitting OSM at all.
>
> Spain is a mountainous country and OSM must reflect that
It does not mean that mountain ranges aremappable in OSM
> but people don't use OSM because it lacks data, and when you try to import very good data, you can't also do it
>
There are many types of data notpresent in OSM at all, and notimportable, even if data itself is of
high quality.

Mountain ranges are borderline, andmy request is to consider alternatives.For example using external data and OSM data together, 
rather than copying this into OSM.
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