[OSM-talk] authorization to import Lombardy data in OSM

[Chris Jones]

Elena of Valhalla wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Jukka Rahkonen
> <jukka.rahkonen at mmmtike.fi> wrote:
>   
>> What happens if the Regional Administration of Lombardy would some day offer  a
>> major update to the data to be imported now?  Can the imported features be
>> identified later so that they could be updated or deleted+inserted again?
>> Update should naturally happen automatically only if no OSM user has touched the
>> feature after initial import.
>>     
>
> will the initial import be done automatically? if so, it may be useful
> to let a new ad-hoc user do it, and later assume that whatever has
> that user as the last author hasn't been changed
>
> this would also help with copyright issue
Why not just use the changeset ID... that's what its there for after all.

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