[Imports] Import: Vancouver Storefront Inventory

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

I am concerned that at least with your obvious account, you seem to have 
made a grand total of 12 edits to OpenStreetMap, all on a different 
continent than the one you propose an import in, and your account was 
signed up yesterday.

Surely if you are based in Vancouver there would have been opportunities 
to make old-fashioned, non-import edits that improve the map?

Kudos to you for cautiously asking, and concentrating on a small subset 
of data initially - but to be very honest, I prefer imports run by 
people who have made thousands of edits to OSM in the classic way and 
who now, out of that experience, can make a solid proposal. Unless you 
have lots of editing experience with a different account, I would 
suggest that you postpone your import plans until you have done some 
old-fashioned mapping.

Bye
Frederik

On 7/7/22 22:48, Victor Villas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I’d like to gather interest and community feedback on importing Vancouver’s Storefront Inventory data:
> https://opendata.vancouver.ca/explore/dataset/storefronts-inventory/table/
> 
> This is going to take a while because I want to be very thorough, specially since so many stores unfortunately went under during the data gathering period (2020-2022). I intent to tackle this by small segments, starting with Cafés only. If it works well, I might expand on other subgroups and hopefully I get get at least the Food & Beverages segment covered - though I doubt I’d ever finish importing the whole dataset by myself.
> 
> For now, I’m working on reconciling OSM and the inventory data to see how much they overlap and how agreeable are the geo points, but I’m not finished with that yet. At least they are somewhat similar in overall size, both in the 500s of seemingly coffee related businesses.
> 
> Anyone from GVA has any thoughts on this? Any concerns?
> 
> You can read more about my thoughts and progress on my OSM diary:
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/villasv/diary
> 
> Cheers,
> Victor
> 
> 
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