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

[andrzej zaborowski]

2009/4/29 Chris Jones <rollercow at sucs.org>:
> 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.

The changeset comment would work, rather than ID -- the changesets
need to be very small these days, so it takes thousands of IDs for an
import.

Cheers