[OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

[Lester Caine]

sly (sylvain letuffe) wrote:
>> there's also the technical or procedural aspect (...)
>> >I don't think these should be decided locally.
> And that's where we disagree. Your are not accepting any distinction about all
> different cases in your statement, and it seams you are implicitly denying
> the ability of the local community to decide wisely.

sly - take a step back.
The 'mechanisms' that we use MUST be managed centrally, along with the core 
software, and it is this mechanism that is currently BROKEN when handling 
imported data? We do not have a robust process in place world wide so we don't 
want groups running creating their own isolated processes?

Now I have no doubt there are some clever people in every local workgroup who 
can take their own data sources and manipulate them in a way that can then be 
imported into the main database. There are no objections to that. Some imports 
will be geo-referencing new raster layers and there is no dispute about that 
process, but when it comes to 'importing' raw data there are big holes in the 
process world wide which still need plugging rather than local groups plouging 
on down their own 'agenda'. Now if there is no interest in supporting a central 
mechanism to work towards AUTOMATICALLY importing LOCALLY processed data then so 
be it. Go on wiping and reloading every time the source data is updated and 
manually merging everything. I happen to think that is the wrong way of doing 
it, but in the case of the French data I don't have the information to suggest 
anything else :( In the case of the UK data we know how, we are just not allowed 
to yet double :(

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