[OSM-talk] Import guidelines & OSMF/DWG governance

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 18.09.2012 18:04, Christian Quest wrote:
> Still no answer to my main original questions:
> - who decided the import guidelines ?

It is a policy that has grown gradually. Just like other things in OSM 
have - you'll not find anything about a vote for highway=motorway on the 
Wiki either.

> - who decided to make the dedicated account mandatory ?

We always expected people to set up a dedicated account for large 
imports and just adapted the wording to make that clearer.

In another post, you have complained about the fact that the information 
is not straightforward, or not easy to find. However, I wish to repeat 
that nobody went to the offending user saying "you didn't read the 
policy, so we have blocked you and we'll revert your edits". The user 
was only blocked after being made aware of the policy and then 
continuing to ignore it. So this is not an issue of an user having 
difficulties in finding the applicable policy.

As a DWG member, I don't expect subservience and I don't run around with 
guns blazing. But if I tell someone not to do something and they simply 
ignore me then I will block them in order to be listened to. If the user 
wants to discuss something with me that's fine but please discuss first, 
import later.

How would you *like* import guidelines to be decided? Do you have any 
workable concept for that? Because I would really be interested.

Bye
Frederik

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