[OSM-talk] Réf.: Re: Proposal for import guidelines

[Lester Caine]

THEVENON Julien wrote:
> The proposal of changeset tags seems also good for me but I consider that the arbitrary criteria of node number is a weakness that fall in the trap of "stupid technical loopholes" mentionnedby Jean Marc.
> it will be quite easy to split changesets to stay under the limit and avoid the use of a separated account. geographical area limitation (by example country scale) could also be hacked by splitting. that's why I personnally think that purely automatic script without manual refinement are better criteria to justify the use of a dedicated account unless there are some other reasons I'm not aware of that make the only use of tags unsufficiant
The 'reason' for a separate account should be 'designed out' and I see providing 
the base import as a public accessible layer as a stepping stone to providing 
other tools to managing the data. If the import process maintains a source tag 
of the relevant layer, then we can see what has come from that source, and can 
hopefully over time develop a 'history' of the imports objects into the base 
'layer' and archive deleted data into an historic layer.

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