I have seen enough bad imports (and put significant effort into cleaning some of them up) that I like the guidelines and wish more people would follow them. Even if each individual clause may be a slight inconvenience or not entirely necessary for a particular import, I think it is worth having and following them because there seem to be a lot more bad imports than good imports. So while it may be an inconvenience, it is well worth it to have a solid guideline you can point bad importers to.
Also, Not all "local" communities are capable of performing their own quality assurance and monitoring so I think it is ok to have some global oversight on this issue. This may not apply to France but having a dedicated import account still helps the overall process that the DWG goes through. I think Mike of all people should see the value in a dedicated account. My understanding is that he could not agree to the new CT because he imported data that was not ODbL compliant using his personal account and then couldn't easily distinguish between his own edits and the imported data. This led to more license bot damage in Kosovo than would otherwise have been required. Toby _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
