[Talk-ht] Health facilities import data quality

[Karl Guggisberg]

Hi

Yes, you should clean up duplicates but if possible please follow these 
rules:
* don't deduplicate objects which have a tag "paho:id". Rather add a 
relation as described here 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Status/Hospitals#Duplicates 
.
* if there are obvious duplicates of nodes/ways  *not* having a tag 
"paho:id" with nodes/ways *having* a "paho:id" then please remove the 
node without "paho:id", but make sure that you merge the already mapped 
tag sets

 > Secondly, is there a reason why most of the names are in all caps in 
OSM, even though this is not the normal convention for names in OSM?
That's because the data from the PAHO master list is formatted that way, 
at least in most cases.

You are of course free to clean-up whatever you want. There is a certain 
risk, though, that your updates get overwritten with the next import.

Regards
Karl


Am 18.02.2010 16:38, schrieb David Ellams:
> Sorry if I am missing the point here. Am I right in thinking that 
> those overseeing the import of hospitals do not want mappers to clear 
> up obvious duplicates in OSM?
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Status/Hospitals#Duplicates
> (e.g., in Jacmel).
> Secondly, is there a reason why most of the names are in all caps in 
> OSM, even though this is not the normal convention for names in OSM?
> Normally I would just go ahead and fix these things, as I would for 
> any other imported data in OSM (that is why, even where OSM has 
> imported data, it is often better than the imported data, due to 
> clean-up by OSMers). So please do flag up if there is a good reason 
> not to!
> Thanks
>
> David
>
>
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