[OSM-dev] usfs data on osm

[SteveC]

Hi

Cool, hope you're safely back by now then.

You also need to make sure you get license permission to do all this.

The best thing to do is ask on the dev@ list for help... which I'll do  
for you now by cc'ing...

Best

Steve


On 10 Dec 2008, at 10:46, Adam Layne wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> I'm Adam, a college student in the states and a volunteer for OSM.  
> This summer I talked to you and dev alot about using United States  
> Forest Service data on OSM to illustrate national park boundaries  
> and paths in the US. this all kind of fell through before I went off  
> to East Africa for 4 months, where I am still for two weeks, but I  
> want to resurrect this project again. As far as I can tell I just  
> need to contact each state's (maybe each park's) USFS office and get  
> shapefiles, convert them to .osm, and upload them to the map. I'm  
> willing to do the contacting, but I either need someone to do the  
> conversions, write me a script to do the conversions, or teach me  
> how to do them myself. I have some small programming experience, so  
> I am up to the task of learning, but if you could point me in the  
> right direction that would be great. I'd like to pick one forest or  
> state to do completely first, to get the kinks out, then make a page  
> on the wiki detailing what is done and what is left to do. I'm happy  
> to take care of as much of the work as possible, but like i said, i  
> need a little help.
>
> thanks,
>
> Adam