Charlotte,<br><br>I would suggest talking to people on the imports list (I am posting this to there as well). Shapefiles are a pretty common type of file for geographic data. <br><br>Also what is the license of the data? Is the license for the data compatible with OSM? Here are the import guidelines: <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines</a><br>
<br> Since there is already road TIGER data and people have probably made edits to it the process is going to take some manual work. I would recommend it being broken up into areas and having people manually compare data.<br>
<br>Kate Chapman<br>user: wonderchook<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Charlotte Wolter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:techlady@techlady.com">techlady@techlady.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Folks,<br><br>
I have
acess to some road data in the form of a "shape file." It
is over a fairly large area in Arizona and New Mexico. What is the best
and safest way to go about bringing this data into OSM? <br>
I do not
have experience with this type of data (e.g., shape files).<br><br>
Charlotte<br><br>
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