On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Samat K Jain <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone know if this fellow… > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/barrycarter/edits > > consulted the imports list/anyone before doing his imports? I can't find any > record of discussion. > > The City of Albuquerque has a great public-domain address point dataset. > Except, it uses a different schema than OSM and is *worthless* to import > as-is into OSM. Which unfortunately hasn't stopped people. See: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/1813288475 > > Richard Weait previously removed this same dataset back in December: > > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2011-December/007113.html > > I'm waiting on the original mapper to respond, but I don't think there's any > other way to proceed other than a revert.
I don't recall any consultation of this list so I'd say it is definitely a prime candidate for a revert. New user, didn't consult, didn't use a sensible OSM tagging scheme. Seems like he thought OSM is just a GIS dumping ground. Toby _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
