[Imports] [OSM-newbies] Best process for data imports?

[Kate Chapman]

Charlotte,

I would suggest talking to people on the imports list (I am posting this to
there as well).  Shapefiles are a pretty common type of file for geographic
data.

Also what is the license of the data?  Is the license for the data
compatible with OSM? Here are the import guidelines:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines

 Since there is already road TIGER data and people have probably made edits
to it the process is going to take some manual work.  I would recommend it
being broken up into areas and having people manually compare data.

Kate Chapman
user: wonderchook

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Charlotte Wolter <techlady at techlady.com>wrote:

>  Folks,
>
>         I have acess to some road data in the form of a "shape file."  It
> is over a fairly large area in Arizona and New Mexico. What is the best and
> safest way to go about bringing this data into OSM?
>         I do not have experience with this type of data (e.g., shape
> files).
>
> Charlotte
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