[Imports] ourFootPrints.de data import has started

[andrzej zaborowski]

2010/1/11 Sam Vekemans <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com>:
> Unfortunatly, i havent mastered Osmosis yet. :(
> ... Nor postGIS
>
> I was more thinking of visually looking at the .osm file in JOSM and
> selecting the 'clusers' of data, like the biggest city and
> Copy/paste/delete into a new smaller OSM file, so then you would have
> a file of just the city, and the other of everything but the City.

This is useful when you have tons of data and at least a couple of
people interested, this is not the case in many of the imports so
perhaps you don't have to always suggest the same approach :)
Additionally splitting the data in smaller files creates more work
with joining the nodes at the boundaries.

In my experience 20MB of roads data is an amount that a single person
can go through in detail in between 1 and 2 weeks time, assuming
there's already pre-existing data in OSM which needs to be
deduplicated / decided on which version to keep, and roads junctions
fixed before the final upload.

Cheers