Hi, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Interesting. We will be having the same kind of import versus existing > data issue once more (if and) when the Nationaal Wegenbestand > (National road database) is made available by the transport ministry. > I did not give it much thought yet - may be some of my Dutch > co-OSM-ers will have a more elaborate train of thought - but I was > thinking along similar lines: import the data but tag it so that it > won't show up in the map. Have a dedicated map layer on a local server > that can be used to check existing user data, may be even a Potlatch > layer if at all possible. I guess JOSM support would be easy enough > through the WMS plugin.
This way (import everything with funny tagging and let users then work with it) is, in my eyes, suitable if you have reason to believe that a lot of what you import is actually going to be used. If, on the other hand, it is likely that 80% of what you import will later be deleted because it was there already, then it may be better to run the import like we did the Nordrhein-Westfalen import: Set up a completely separate WMS layer that can be shown in the backgroundd and allow people to import individual objects where they think it's worthwile. Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
