[Talk-us] Imports and Mass Edits in the US

[Alex Barth]

Interesting idea… trying to wrap my mind around this.

On Dec 17, 2012, at 9:42 AM, Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com> wrote:

> So I'm proposing a new committee, run by the US Chapter, to help guide
> imports and large edits.

What specifically would this committee (or point person or whatever it might be) offer?

I'm asking this question as I'm thinking that our problem for guiding imports properly is quite simply this: time and/or money. Making a new committe won't solve either of these problems, but being very specific about what a more formal process would bring us could help us find the proper resources (likely volunteer resources but maybe we need to think bigger).

> This will give step by step guidance to those who want to import data,
> and offer the larger community time to review and provide feedback.

I've seen that in the recent Mass GIS import there was broad feedback on the proposed import, I'm assuming that a mailing list based feedback process like that will continue to be a good idea in the future. What will a committee add to this process? Or how will it facilitate it?

Can we describe the problem areas that arise when doing imports in more concrete terms so that we can delineate better what such a committee would do for us?

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