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

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2012/9/19 Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com>:
> The size of the whole French cadastre dataset is huge. We could upload
> it in a single mass import with a bot using a seperate user account as
> we did for the Corine Land Cover. We could follow 100% of the import
> guidelines. Trust me, we have all the capacities in humans,
> competences and computers to do it. But instead, we decided that
> buildings have to be better integrated with the existing data and
> better controlled by simple, average contributors in smaller chunks....


actually looking at the summary in the osm wiki it looks as if you
can't do so for legal reasons:
"Les données du cadastre ne peuvent former à elles seules les données
OSM. Ce qui interdit un import massif, direct et automatique"

top of the page, 2nd paragraph, "Il y a deux conditions à la
réutilisation des données du cadastre:":
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Cadastre_Fran%C3%A7ais/Conditions_d%27utilisation

;-)

cheers,
Martin