On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 04:59:27PM +0100, THEVENON Julien wrote: > For major part of French contributors we are adding buildings and other > details not related to cadastre, so having one account per kind of edit will > be really painfull.. but it it will not be for people that just perform raw > building imports !
I don't know which data you have been looking at, but let's ask Nominatim, shall we? For France we have: raw buildings indexed 27337552 other objects indexed 3799339 ----------------------------------------------- Total number of objects indexed 31136891 Objects are real word objects here: highways, pois, boundaries etc. In other words, for 7 imported buildings you manage to map one non-cadastre object. So indeed, I would agree that French contributors do map other details. Occasionally. Very. Occasionally. [referring to separate import accounts] > This is the real problem for us. For the sake of completeness: planetwide there are currently 152 million objects. Which means 1/6th of the planet consists of French buildings. Now, there is a real problem. Whatever use all those balconies, patios and swimming pools might have in the future, right now in the present the cadastre import has become a major nuissance for anybody who wants to use OSM data. It wastes lots of bandwidth and CPU time. If it wasn't for the cadastre imports, we'd still be able to keep the 32bit id space for nodes for another year or two, which would save a lot of hard disk space for a lot of people. Just some food for thought. Now please don't let me stop you from continuing to complain about how all those import rules make your life so much harder. Sarah _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk