[OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

[THEVENON Julien]

>>>> De : Peter Wendorff <wendorff at uni-paderborn.de>

>>>> Yes, it is part of the import process, as it's the main preparation of the import.
>>>>  When we "import" a list of facilities we get from a third party, e.g. the fuel station import last year, most of the time the raw data is not fitting to osm needs very well.
>>>>  Most of the time there's some kind of preprocessing, be it manually or automatically - and if it's done by a bot that bot usually has to be developed, too.
>>>>  All this is part of the import process IMHO, yes

Ok, in our case this is done manually during the merge.

>>>> All versions?

No. On cadastre.gouv.fr you have the current version

>>>> It was said that there are new versions every few years. Do the old, then outdated versions stay there?
On cadastre.openstreetmap.fr data are regenerated periodically or on demand

>>>>  Apart from that while OSM basically has English as the lingua franca, I think it's a bad idea to rely on French only for documentation - inside osm as well as for outside documentation like cadastre.gouv.fr.
I guess this at been written in french only because it was targeting french communauty for OSM documentation

Cheers 

Julien
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