andrzej zaborowski wrote:
Well, this time a single import account has been registered per province with a single person coordinating the (potential) imports in each province. The assignments have been documented on the wiki. This is better but the account names are still not directly linked with real people, and the division by provinces is artificial because the data was supposed to be uploaded by users only for the areas they know personally, which may be on village level for example.
To my eyes that provides a perfect base to work from, but if you have not been following the thread ...
What I have been asking is how we can manage on-going imports of a dataset that is being updated regularly. This is probably on 'off-line' function, and could well be managed by the 'local chapter' on their own computers. This is the 'process' I'm looking to be developed, so that the raw import data is held in a format that later imports can be compared against, and only differences then get further procession. Breaking this process down into provinces, and importing the pre-processed RAW data via an import account gives us a clean base which mappers can then work against and improve the data ... and changes to the 'imported' data would then be mirrored back to the staging process. Seeing that an element is version 1 by the import user immediately tells you that it may need additional local information adding ( we need to be able to see who last edited an object! ). Where the import HAS nice unique object identifiers things are a lot easier, but raw vector data like the French import, and I think the Spanish data you are talking about CAN still be 'diffed' against earlier imports, and result in perhaps new data that can simply be imported, or perhaps an overlay that identifies conflicts that need a human eye. Isn't it better to spend time working out a GOOD way of using the data going forward rather than having to manually merge the whole lot again in a couple of years time ... and every couple of years.
-- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
