[Talk-us] Import for Murray County, OK

[Dave Hansen]

On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 12:08 -0500, Mike N. wrote:
> > It looks fairly unedited since the TIGER upload:
> 
>   I see that there's been a new edit since I did my analysis, but still 
> quite unedited.
> 
> > I take it you're going to follow the best-practices import procedures,
> > like using a new and unique OSM userid?
> 
>    I believe the new and unique OSM userid is less useful on smaller 
> imports.    If the purpose is to allow quick and easy contact with the 
> uploader, this does not work for me.  OSM does not allow the same email to 
> be used for multiple user IDs.   I don't have a convenient way to keep an 
> unlimited array size of email addresses that are checked with any 
> regularity.   I could forward those email addresses except that
>  1.) The forwarding process inserts a hitch in the spam filtering process 
> and forwarding can often fail silently.
>  2.) The Email hoster might detect lack of login activity as a reason to 
> silently terminate the email box.

I don't disagree with you on any of these points.  But, I still think
it's a good idea, and it's what I personally settled on for the TIGER
import.  But, I also do my own email hosting, so I'm not very worried
about silent failures.

If you're a gmail user, take a look at these aliases:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=12096

>   That being said, having an identity separate from an "editing identity" is 
> useful to detect future manual edits.

Yup, and to locate and back things out if you have troubles.  I guess
it's better with changesets these days than it was in the OSM stone ages
when I did TIGER. :)

-- Dave