<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">> It would be neat to arrange some online mapping parties where people<br>> can help clean it up.<br><br>Awesome idea<br><br>Should definitely start to coordinate on the wiki. We should have a table in the wiki listing all the regions/cities. If you choose to work on a particular city or region, then make a note in that table. Can someone put that together?<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Palestine_WestBank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Palestine_WestBank</a></span><br><br>> When I looked at the JumpStart data for Gaza it had some things that<br>> the currently OSM
doesn't, like street names. But the OSM data has<br>> other things the JumpStart data lacks. Such as building outlines when<br>> mappers have bothered to trace them.<br>> <br>> So the JumpStart data isn't a superset of the OSM data.<br><br>Yes, good to know. I still think the easiest thing will be to delete what's currently there, import, and fix. We'll make sure to archive the current state of Gaza, for similar comparison later.<br><br><br>> I'm familiar with the difficulty of merging two OSM datasets<br>> automatically and I think we should go ahead as you suggest and delete<br>> the current Gaza data and upload the JumpStart data over it. But after<br>> that there needs to be a merging effort to add the things that<br>> shouldn't have been deleted.<br><br>Cool<br><br><br></div></div></div></body></html>