On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 2:25 AM, Toby Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Please send the account some firm but polite guidance with a touch of encouragement. Ideally we will want that account to consider learning the right way to participate, rather than run screaming from the "pitchforks and torches." :-) _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
