[Imports] Best practices for address imports

2013-11-24 Thread Martin Raifer
Randal Hale wrote: I ask because I will (hopefully) be faced with a comparable problem in 2014 I'm also involved in a similar address import which is still in an early phase. And I see more similar projects upcoming (e.g. Italian housenumbers by ISTAT: [1]). I think that now would be a

Re: [Imports] Best practices for address imports

2013-11-24 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Martin Raifer wrote: > Randal Hale wrote: >> >> I ask because I will (hopefully) be faced with a comparable problem in >> 2014 > > > I'm also involved in a similar address import which is still in an early > phase. And I see more similar projects upcoming (e.g. I

Re: [Imports] Best practices for address imports

2013-11-24 Thread Carol Kraemer
>> * What are the pro/cons of a manual community import versus an automated >> import versus some hybrid form? >Generally automated imports are becoming less accepted by the >community. While they have problems, community imports have the idea >that a user will be doing a review of the data and th

Re: [Imports] Best practices for address imports

2013-11-24 Thread Christian Quest
2013/11/24 Martin Raifer > Randal Hale wrote: > >> I ask because I will (hopefully) be faced with a comparable problem in >> 2014 >> > > I'm also involved in a similar address import which is still in an early > phase. And I see more similar projects upcoming (e.g. Italian housenumbers > by ISTA

Re: [Imports] Best practices for address imports

2013-11-24 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 24.11.2013 19:18, Carol Kraemer wrote: > Can we get definitions for "manual community import," A community import is one where the import is not done by one central entity but small parcels of the data-to-be-imported are made available for individual community members to tackle as they see

Re: [Imports] Best practices for address imports

2013-11-24 Thread Carol Kraemer
Import and Import-US group members, I've been thinking after writing my last response in this thread. Since we are talking about best practices in this thread, we still haven't gotten any closer to clearly defining many things that are governed by the Imports and Imports-US groups. I've been remai

Re: [Imports] Best practices for address imports

2013-11-24 Thread Frederik Ramm
Carol, maybe we're suffering from a trans-atlantic word defintion problem here. When I say "community" I always, exclusively, mean the OSM community - not "the community of people living in one house block or one village or city quarter or town" or anything else. Everyone can of course be (or

Re: [Imports] Best practices for address imports

2013-11-24 Thread Carol Kraemer
I want to address one of your comments separately from the others: > * What is the OSM community and who does it really support since it > does seem to be highly selective in who it gives the import hall > pass to? I think if you really want to be constructive about this in the future,

Re: [Imports] Best practices for address imports

2013-11-24 Thread Carol Kraemer
Correction: My import is not failed. - Carol Kraemer North River Geographic Systems, Inc http://www.northrivergeographic.com 404.431.0125 cakrae...@northrivergeographic.com On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Carol Kraemer < cakrae...@northrivergeographic.com> w

Re: [Imports] Best practices for address imports

2013-11-25 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/11/24 Martin Raifer > * If you had an address dataset that positions the addresses at or near to > the respective building entrances: Wouldn't it make sense to not conflate > the address data with building outlines? (Because by conflating the > usefulness of the data would actually be reduce