[OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 20 September 2012 00:41, Richard Fairhurst <richard en systemed.net> wrote:
> Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>> I believe that dedicated accounts are generally better for
>> imports than using "mixed" ones which are also used for
>> original data. This really helps a lot in sorting data
>> according to its intellectual properties holders.
>
> Yes, absolutely.
>
> The really obvious example of this is the Polish UMP data, which was
> licensed CC-BY-SA and could not be kept post-licence change. If dedicated
> accounts had been used, removing this data would have been relatively easy;
> in reality, it has been (and continues to be) a nightmare. :(

I think this is a counter example as it is well known which data is
imported, and it is still a nightmare.  The imported data is marked in
a way that was standard for imports, and continues to be used for
local TIGER 2011 imports for example.

Cheers