[Talk-ca] Your latest proposal for GeoBase import

[Sam Vekemans]

My internet is down; i'll add a section 'learning from AND import'

So in summary; 'In doing so, this will cause an expectant behavour
among users, where work
is neglected.'

So in this light a blanket import over not-concentrated areas would be better.

Would doing the 'search and add only, and/or tracing ability not be better?
Would it not still create an expectancy for updates?

Pondering.
(while internet is down)
Sam
> Cool,
> i'll switch it back, i'll also try to summarize your agruments against the
> idea.
> Cheers,
> Sam
>
> On 12/11/08, Richard Degelder <rtdegelder at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sam,
>>
>> The AND import in the Netherlands used the almost complete wiping out of
>> all personally entered data from the mappers there and replaced it
>> entirely with the AND data.  I thought that we had agreed informally
>> that that was not what e wanted to do within Canada when we import the
>> GeoBase data here.  Lots of things have been done that are not always
>> the best practises and the wiping out of almost all of the previously
>> entered data within OSM to be replaced with the AND data was done for
>> expediency, something that we are not advocating here.
>>
>> Even Dave Hansen, the person who entered the TIGER data for the USA did
>> not eliminate any user entered data and one of the aspects he is hoping
>> to see from us is to find a means to update the TIGER data, just as we
>> are going to look for a way to update the GeoBase data in the future.
>> Is our update routine going to be a constant process of wiping out
>> everything that did not come from GeoBase and replacing it with GeoBase
>> derived data?
>>
>> The AND data integration, or rather the wholesale AND replacement of all
>> user entered data, was a one of event.  Having that type of option
>> available for the GeoBase integration means that there really is not a
>> place for the many people that have entered data into the map.  It no
>> longer is a crowd source project but only a Canadian government
>> distributed map within ...