[OSM-talk] import of dataset for new zealand

[Robin Paulson]

On 21/03/2008, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  in the second case,....well i see this as unlikely. how any orgs are
>  >  willing to go to the cost of creating a duplicate data set for an area
>  >  (by which i mean same data, same area), when they can get one that
>  >  exists immediately?
>
>
> I know you think this is hypothetical but it's a very real problem. In
>  NL we got the AND data and in the next year or two we will get access
>  to the NWB, which is the map compiled by the govt. It's not clear at
>  all that one is going to be better than the other and merging them is
>  going to be a real problem.

sorry for the long delay in replying, been on holiday

ok, clearly not so hypothetical. in the case of two data sets being
merged, why can the 'source' tag not be updated to be 'source=AND,
NWB'  i realise it's proposed to be read-only, but there's no reason
the person reponsible for the second import couldn't be given
administrator privileges for the period when the second data import is
done. they upload the data, and at the same time the source tag is
added to. everyone else still only has read-only privileges for that
specific tag, but can edit anything else (position of objects, data in
other tags, as they see fit)