[Talk-ca] Railways duplicated in CanVec data

Richard Weait richard at weait.com
Fri Jun 3 01:55:06 BST 2011


On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Samuel Longiaru <longiaru at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> What?  Didn't know that.  We should be importing under a separate account?
> How is that to be set up?  Sorry if I've been doing this wrong.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines#Use_a_dedicated_user_account
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits/Code_of_Conduct
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Data_working_group/Mechanical_Edit_Policy

Indeed.  Separate accounts for each import source are the current best
practice.  Not everybody is following this obviously.  No harm in
trying to follow all of the best guidelines.



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