On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Lord-Castillo, Brett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:BLord-Castillo@stlouisco.com">BLord-Castillo@stlouisco.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I posted
this up through Nabble, but it’s been sitting there 4 days without being
accepted so I’m trying through the list instead:</span></p>
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<p>I have access to a significant amount of spatial data in sql
server 2008 spatial format for my county, covered under public domain/CC Share
Alike. <br>
It consists of about 70k addressed road centerline segments and 700,000 or so
building outlines, light rail lines and stations, police stations, fire
stations, schools, addressing points, hospitals, and care facilities. I
have direct contact with the GIS coordinator to work on any licensing issues. <br>
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<p>My question though is, how do I get this data from sql
server spatial to OSM? <br>
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<p>I can export out to any ArcInfo supported format (like
shapefile). <br></p></div></div></blockquote><div>I would start with this: export the various themes to shapefiles and then we can work from there. I don't think anyone has any experience converting SQL Server 2008 to OSM, but there's tons of experience converting SHP to OSM.<br>
<br>As for reconciliation after you get it into OSM format, it really depends on the areas that the data covers. If it's in a highly active area, then there's a greater chance that there will be more conflicts (but also possibly more people to help you). Once we get the OSM files, we can work on getting some help to merge old OSM with new OSM (perhaps from the Germans (who have already mapped everything in their own country ;-) )).<br>
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