<p dir="ltr">How do we handle tribal administrative boundaries? This is kind of a big one for the US, Canada and Australia..</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 17, 2012 2:51 PM, "Charlotte Wolter" <<a href="mailto:techlady@techlady.com">techlady@techlady.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Serge,<br><br>
<u></u> <u></u>This is a
good idea.<br>
<u></u> <u></u>I have a
large file of data from the Acoma tribe, but my efforts to negotiate the
import wiki have been fruitless. I can't made heads or tails of it.<br>
<u></u> <u></u>Further, I
don't know if it's the kind of data we want (though they say it is public
domain and gave permission in writing). It is road center lines for the
whole reservation. I remember a remark somewhere in this forum that
center lines are not the best data. At any rate, I'm not a good judge of
whether or not it is what we want.<br>
<u></u> <u></u>In
addition, I've already done work on the main roads, though often I'm
lacking a name or number.<br>
<u></u> <u></u>And, I
don't have tools to exmine a data file to see if it is congruent with
what OSM can use.<br>
<u></u> <u></u>So, for
many reasons, having a knowledgeable group take this on seems to me like
a great idea.<br><br>
Best,<br><br>
Charlotte<br><br>
At 06:42 AM 12/17/2012, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Folks,<br><br>
I know what it's like to be excited about OSM, and I know what it's<br>
like to be frustrated with OSM, struggling with low data quality, or<br>
lack of data altogether.<br><br>
And then you get access to a large dataset, and you know that having<br>
it in OSM would improve things. It would improve the quality, and<br>
maybe even get people mapping. At the same time, I think many of you<br>
have seen the damage that bad imports can do.<br><br>
The result is that folks like myself and others are frustrated by
the<br>
import process, and folks who have good, useful datasets are
frstrated<br>
by the import process.<br><br>
So I'm proposing a new committee, run by the US Chapter, to help
guide<br>
imports and large edits.<br><br>
This will give step by step guidance to those who want to import
data,<br>
and offer the larger community time to review and provide
feedback.<br><br>
When I helped create the US Chapter several years ago, this was one
of<br>
the main reasons I thought it should exist, but I think there's<br>
finally the amount of data and interest to justify it.<br><br>
What do folks think?<br><br>
- Serge<br><br>
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