[OSM-talk] Import of buildings in Chicago

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 27 May 2012 18:11, Colin Smale <colin.smale en xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 27/05/2012 17:54, Worst Fixer wrote:
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>> There is on going import of Buildings in city Chicago.
>>
>> Import is held by following account:
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/chicago-buildings
>>
>> I found no discussions of this import. No announcement. I searched bad?
>>
>> It is absent from following web page:
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue
>>
>> I want know why importer uses following tags:
>>
>> * chicago:building_id (314 330 objects, used by 2 users).
>>
>> I sent letter to importer, and he said he will not import this tag any
>> more. But, he continues to. No justification of need for tag was given.
>>
> Who has the right to ban a tag? Where does it say that a tag has to be
> justified?

The DWG has the right to block imports with unjustified tags and has
done that on many occasions, and also made it clear on the imports@
list that this would happen.  It's also documented on the wiki.

However the partial street name tags have been discussed on talk-us@
several times and were considered to be useful.  I'd also say that a
single "id" tag referring to another database may be useful and not an
overkill to the OSM database.  Not saying that the precise tagging
shouldn't have been discussed beforehand.

Cheers