[Imports] ourFootPrints.de data import has started

[Sam Vekemans]

Thanks,

That is an interesting approach.

I think that is BRILLIANT!

Considering that software like the  osm-world-routable-garmin download
maps would not detect things tagged as
'ourFootPrints:highway=residential'.

As long as that person uses a dedicated account, and takes full
responsibility, its cool.

I would recommend 2 things:

1: add the 'source=ourFootPrints.de' tag to it all
2: slice up the OSM file to bite sized geographical pieces ie. Small
enough that JOSM can happely view that whole area in 1 download.
-this can easily be done manually, as your file isnt that big. And
have a mapping party (social get together) and load it all at once.

My 2 cents,
Sam

On 1/11/10, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab at gmail.com> wrote:
> ourFootPrints.de
> (http://www.ourfootprints.de/gps/mapsource-island_e.html) is an effort
> started in 2004 to create a free of change Garmin map of Iceland, for
> the past year I've been in contact with Thomas Ransberger who runs the
> project about getting his data into OpenStreetMap since we share
> similar goals.
>
> A few days ago Thomas provided me with GPX traces & a dump of the road
> data on his map to start with. That's 22MB of GPX traces and a 29MB
> .osm file (the whole of Iceland.osm is around 67MB by comparison).
> I've already imported the GPX data under a dedicated user account with
> the .osm data to follow soon.
>
>   The import user:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ourFootPrints%20import/traces
>   The raw data: http://github.com/avar/ourfootprints-data
>   Import scripts / documentation:
> http://github.com/avar/ourfootprints-import
>
> Here's the 29MB .osm file which is approximately what I'll be
> importing, after I've fixed up the source tags / highway tags etc.:
>
>     !! DO NOT UPLOAD THIS
> http://v.nix.is/~avar/noindex/ourfootprints/ofp.osm.bz2 !!
>
> The plan is basically to upload that as-is except change the tags to
> be e.g. ourfootprints:highway=residential instead of
> highway=residential. That way a lot of duplicate data will be added to
> the database temporarily until we manually review & sort it out by
> either deleting it, merging it in to have highway=residential. Most of
> the data users like the renderers, mkgmap etc. won't notice since the
> roads will use previously unused tags.
>
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