Changeset: 43885295
Revert undiscussed imports
Closed by woodpeck_repair
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created_by | osmtools/30252 (linux) |
Discussion
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Comment from mikelmaron
@woodpeck_repair was there any public discussion of reverting this import? I agree that imports should have discussion -- but also think reverts should have discussion too, and a chance for things to be made right.
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Comment from woodpeck
We don't publicly discuss reverting imports but we usually seek to get in touch with the importers (in this case, three unsuccessful attempts have been made by various people in http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/37015792 http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/36896136 http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/36853029). Allowing undiscussed and undocumented imports to remain would lead to a situation where everyone would just import their stuff because there's a good chance of it being approved post-hoc. This is undesirable; we must educate users to adhere to the few rules that we have, and that includes that rogue imports are subject to removal.
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Comment from mikelmaron
Thanks for the reply @woodpeck. I definitely agree we need documented imports, but I'm unclear about the proactive import process, and I'm far from the only one in the community confused by it. A few questions to help get a better picture.
* How are undocumented imports discovered? Are they reported to the DWG? Or is the DWG actively looking for these?
* Once a undocumented import is found, what is the process for communicating with the importer to resolve the problem? What else is done in the process of investigating the import? What is the amount of time given for response from the user? If they are responsive, what is the amount of time given for fixing or documenting properly?
* If the goal is to educate users, what is the reasoning for no public discussion of import reverts? Or even logging and statistics on reverts? Transparency, allowing mappers to know more about what reverts are happening and why, would help greatly to inform the community about the accepted procedure for imports.
Thanks
Mikelps How do you personally have so much time to do reverts? :) @woodpeck_repair seems to work day after day on these!
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Comment from mikelmaron
s/proactive import process/proactive import revert process/
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