[OSM-talk] Massive import of airports

Toby Murray toby.murray at gmail.com
Fri Dec 17 09:08:48 GMT 2010


In my area it looks like a couple of small rural grass strips was
added. The hospital helipad was initially duplicated but then
re-deleted in a subsequent changeset by the same user. So it looks
like there was at least SOME attempt at de-duplicating things, even if
it was done after the fact.

Toby


On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:53 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 12/17/10 09:43, David Paleino wrote:
>>
>> today I've stumbled upon changeset 6682943 [0] in my area, and, digging
>> further, I found its companions listed in [1].
>
> Imports on such scale should be discussed before they're done, and
> documented after. In this case, a discussion would probably have yielded the
> recommendation to automatically detect duplicates.
>
> Complete lack of discussion is reason enough for a revert in my opinion. I'd
> suggest contacting the importer and asking him where/how he has heard the
> community about his plans and whether he intends to fix the problems.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
>
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