[Talk-us] Create GIS database for Non Profit Organization

[Val Kartchner]

On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 10:12 -0400, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
> Clifford,
> 
> I'm afraid I didn't entirely understand the question, but will try to
> give it a shot anyway.
> 
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us> wrote:
> > The data for Washington State is available.
> >  It would seem that it could be entered with tags that could be searched by a from a web site
> 
> First, when you say the data for Washington State is available, we
> have to be very careful about what exactly that means. In essence,
> you'd be doing an import into OSM, and generally imports have not been
> overall good for the project and are /generally/ frowned upon.
> 
> Even in the best case, you'd need to do a great deal of work not only
> making sure the tags are right, as you point out, but also ensuring
> that the data you enter is not already present in someone else's
> contributed data. And you would need to ensure that the data is
> properly integrated, and then properly maintained, with a plan for
> handling updates.

What I think that you mean by this is that unsupervised data imports are
frowned upon, for the reasons that you've given.

Such scenarios need to be tried in a small area with thorough review.
Let others on this mailing list know about the test area so that it can
be peer reviewed.  You'll need to see how this trial goes before
proceeding with other areas.

Good luck,

- Val -