On 24 June 2011 11:53, Mike N <[email protected]> wrote: > The preferred approach is definitely a separate account for that import. > There are other ways to identify the import, even if a separate account is > not used, but such solutions take more time from those who might need to > inspect / change something directly related to the import.
we are going to involve as many people as possible to do the import, to enable locals to merge data near them. this means mappers are less likely to be annoyed at their data being trampled on, and more likely to understand subtleties that a remote mapper wouldn't know about. so, there could well be 20 or 30 people working on this how would you suggest we do that, one new account for each mapper? or one account which all share? i can see both approaches getting messy > If you don't already have and regularly check multiple email addresses, > this can be a challenge. With GMail, there is a way to create an alias for > the import account, but a message from anyone trying to contact you will > show up in the inbox: hmm, something else to consider -- robin http://bumblepuppy.org/blog/?p=237 - government bill to remove basic human rights in NZ _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
