[OSM-newbies] Help with substation data

[Bill Ricker]

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Ricky Satomi <rickypsatomi at gmail.com> wrote:
> I wanted to see what the community thought before I messed anything up.

Good thinking !

>  My impression is that the import function is generally frowned upon and not
> widely used

Correct. Several classes of issues have been seen -
* Legal issues as mentioned.
* bulk-imports and global-auto-edits that work ok where tested may
duplicate / damage details already provided locally by on-the-ground
mappers in some other areas.
* Many specialized datasets *even if legally importable* are better
provided as overlays on specialized render websites, with separate DB,
rather than including them in the main DB.
* etc

so such bulk operations are typically undertaken after only much
discussion and consultation with the experts on the other mailing
lists. (Failure to heed such has resulted in some (in)famous edit-wars
and flame wars, alas.)



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