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

[Marc Sibert]

Le 19/09/2012 00:01, Lester Caine a écrit :
> Marc Sibert wrote:
>>> It is your opinion that you have not destroyed any work, but this is 
>>> one of
>>> the major complaints about this type of import process.
>>
>> STOP ! I do not read you after this sentence (I will do it after 
>> writing this
>> answer).
>
> Now that you have read the rest of the message what is your answer?
> I have nothing to do with DWG but I support their action simply 
> because this needs to be sorted properly, and as far as *I* am 
> concerned it hasn't been.
>
> What is missing is LINKING to the existing imported data rather than 
> unilaterally deciding it can be destroyed ... did you discuss 
> destroying it with anybody?
>
>> This is not an opinion : I select specificaly the old buildings 
>> (untouched since the first import in 2010) using JOSM search tool, 
>> then importing a new set of data, then undouble and check using the 
>> validator ! I spent more than 2 (two) days of work in order to 
>> produce that work ! I'm not a newbe discovering JOSM & OSM. Of 
>> course, like everyone I could have done errors, but I do (more than) 
>> my best. And again nobody complains about vandalism or destroying 
>> data : that's not the point !
> And another 'request' is that changes are committed every 30 minutes 
> or so, not after 2 days work. The CORRECT procedure would have been to 
> take a block of buildings at a time. If you have to delete the 
> existing data then at least it's more easily linked to the new smaller 
> import.
>
Easy : I worked 2 days with JOSM offline : have a look to thoses 
changsets, they belong to the same set of work (in fact I proced in the 
wrong order : add new data, then remove old ones)

#13110932     vendredi 14 septembre 2012 22:06     Réfection du bâti de 
Montlouis sur Loire - DataCleanUp
#13103866     vendredi 14 septembre 2012 08:55     Datacleanup - 
Montlouis sur Loire
#13101791     jeudi 13 septembre 2012 23:19     Réfection du bâti de 
Montlouis sur Loire
#13101128     jeudi 13 septembre 2012 23:14     Réfection du bâti de 
Montlouis sur Loire

Later I will check 
http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/map/?zoom=14&lat=47.38974&lon=0.8164
to see if other errors apear (not a vandal, do I precise it before ?)

Regards,

-- 
Marc Sibert
mailto:marc at sibert.fr