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<DIV>Hi,<BR><BR>We've got together a few people down here <SPAN
name="st">in</SPAN> <SPAN name="st">New</SPAN> <SPAN name="st">Zealand</SPAN>
and we're looking to contribute to OSM. We've got access to loads of <SPAN
name="st">data</SPAN> from Land Information <SPAN name="st">New</SPAN> <SPAN
name="st">Zealand</SPAN> (LINZ) which is provided free without restriction under
crown copyright here <SPAN name="st">in</SPAN> NZ. <BR><BR>I'm looking for some
advice about the best way to bulk seed the OSM database with this <SPAN
name="st">data</SPAN> - has anyone else been through a similar process. We can
process the <SPAN name="st">data</SPAN> into most common GIS formats if this
helps? <BR><BR>We're looking to use this as the basis for OSM coverage <SPAN
name="st">in</SPAN> <SPAN name="st">New</SPAN> <SPAN name="st">Zealand</SPAN>
and concentrate our manual efforts on improving the dataset. <BR><BR>Any advice
would be appreciated<BR><BR>Cheers<BR><BR>Simon</DIV></BODY></HTML>