2012/9/19 Pieren <pier...@gmail.com>: > The size of the whole French cadastre dataset is huge. We could upload > it in a single mass import with a bot using a seperate user account as > we did for the Corine Land Cover. We could follow 100% of the import > guidelines. Trust me, we have all the capacities in humans, > competences and computers to do it. But instead, we decided that > buildings have to be better integrated with the existing data and > better controlled by simple, average contributors in smaller chunks....
actually looking at the summary in the osm wiki it looks as if you can't do so for legal reasons: "Les données du cadastre ne peuvent former à elles seules les données OSM. Ce qui interdit un import massif, direct et automatique" top of the page, 2nd paragraph, "Il y a deux conditions à la réutilisation des données du cadastre:": http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Cadastre_Fran%C3%A7ais/Conditions_d%27utilisation ;-) cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk