[OSM-talk] Proposal for import guidelines

[THEVENON Julien]

>>>> De : Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net>


>>>>Because it's not just about scripts and bots. The Cadastre situation, which
>>>>started all of this off, is often people loading .osm files into JOSM,
>>>>running a quick validator check over it, and uploading. In terms of impact
>>>>on the map and on the community, there is no significant difference between
>>>>this and the same operation using upload.py.

What you mention is normally and exception.
The french wiki page about cadastre building integration explicitely mention that data should be checked carrefully and merged with the existing to keep database coherency and quality.
The french community has also some tools to detect people doing what you mention and often perform a revert of the changeset, contact the contributor to explain that there are some quality requirements.
Clean cadastre integration is a process that take quite a long time when done correctly and that could not be automated, that's why it has been decided to not perform a national automated import like CLC but rather to rely on contributors which do that city by city

Cheers
Julien
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