On Nov 2, 2018, at 3:58 PM, John Whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: > So to paraphrase your reply. A centralised import plan in the wiki which > says the data is approved for import and should be tackled in chunks of some > sort of region since we are a decentralized organization. Which I think is > similar to the way Task Manager works. The project is broken into tiles and > each tile is tackled completed separately. The 'Tiles' would of course be > somewhat larger in area and there is a technical limitation as to how big an > area can be downloaded from the OSM server. > > The local mappers certainly have a role to play and because the goal is not > only to import the buildings but to enrich the tags with commercial etc so > the tag enrichment would be a task that a mapathon could tackle. I > personally don't think a new mapper using iD in a mapathon has a role to play > in importing the building outlines into OSM. > > The plan should include the technical steps to import the data.
AND, must include how existing data in OSM (as there appears to be "in some cases, significant" (I haven't examined the entire dataset, to do so would be overwhelming) which overlap with the "official datasets" will be conflated. That is a critical step. SteveA California _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
