[Talk-GB] Import process

[Will Phillips]

Looking at the data that has been imported, my first reaction is that 
some of the keys/values do look rather non-standard. This suggests to me 
that the process might have benefited from wider discussion.

With the tree data, what jumps out is that every single tree has 
'constituency' and 'ward' tags. I thought there was a general consensus 
that this sort of boundary information should not be added to individual 
objects? What purpose do they serve? Isn't it likely that these 
electoral boundaries will change in the near future?

There are other things -
There is a 'site_name' key which contains the street name written in all 
capitals. Did this need importing, and if so, did it have to be in capitals?
What is the purpose of the 'usrn' tag and has it been documented? I 
wonder whether local_ref or ref:usrn would have been clearer.
The height values are formatted in a non-standard way.

The West Midlands community does appear to be happy with these imports 
and in my view that counts for a lot. However, I certainly don't 
consider them an example of good practice. I don't understand why 
sensible import rules have not been followed, like using a separate 
dedicated OSM account.

Regards,
Will