[OSM-talk] Import of buildings in Chicago

Colin Smale colin.smale at xs4all.nl
Sun May 27 17:32:45 BST 2012


On 27/05/2012 18:21, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> On 27 May 2012 18:11, Colin Smale<colin.smale at 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.
Searched the wiki but couldn't find anything covering the 
"justification" of tags and the role of DWG...Do you have any 
links/references?




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