On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 11:02 AM, sly (sylvain letuffe) <li...@letuffe.org>wrote:
> Le mercredi 19 décembre 2012 23:16:29, Glen Barnes a écrit : > > Agreed. If you are doing a 'managed import' of bulk data (rather than an > > automated import) > What do you define as "managed" ? > What Glen is referring to is what we're doing in New Zealand: - A lot of diverse layers, many small, some large. - Community tagging/approval process for each layer - User checkouts of a specific layer + geographical area, limited by number of features - Automated generation of .osm files for each checkout - Manual merging with any existing features in JOSM; deciding "best"; merging tags; verifying with imagery; etc. Upload results to OSM. - Mark checkout as approved, move onto the next one So I guess "managed" means "no bots; no automated uploads; software-assisted generation of .osm files, then manual merging process" > > then you may have 100 volunteers. Do they each need a > > separate upload account? Should they all share 1 login? > > Both are okay, but they mustn't use their own account for other manual > edits. > (I'm just expressing the de facto rule) > Seems like 100 people sharing a single account is a recipe for disaster, even moreso than using their own individual (not _import) accounts for importing. Rob :) >
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