[OSM-talk] How to deal with versioning

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 06/01/11 15:55, Martijn van Exel wrote:
> 1    A building object is being imported from an open public sector dataset
> 3    The building receives some modifications by human contributors
> (attributes, geometry, or both)
> 3    A new version of the public sector data becomes available and is imported.
>
> Currently, in step 3. the human contributions would be lost, unless
> each building that received community modifications is manually merged
> with the new import.
>
> How can we deal with this situation?

Don't import anything that has a life (i.e. is continuously maintained) 
elsewhere.

Only import stuff of which OSM then takes ownership.

With very, very few exceptions.

Seriously.

Bye
Frederik