[Imports] Alaska National Parks

[Dave Swarthout]

I'm new to this list but have been mapping on OSM for a couple of years,
mostly in Thailand where I spend winters. My home state is Alaska where
very little OSM mapping has been done. I have been wanting to add national
parks, wilderness areas and national wildlife refuges to the Alaska map
but with the exception of a few wilderness areas, have not done so because
I don't have any experience with such large projects.

I obtained from the National Park Service, Denali National Park office,
shape files for all the Alaska National Parks. I see no reference to any
Alaska imports of national parks on this list so I'm asking for input,
suggestions, etc., on how to go about this. Naturally, I think you'll agree
that having these areas in the OSM database is a very worthwhile project.

The file I have is 9 MB in size and includes boundary information for ALL
national parks in Alaska. I was able to load the entire dataset into JOSM
using the OpenData plugin. It took quite a while, roughly 30 minutes on a
pretty fast laptop with 8 GB of RAM, and the data looks good. But it's
complex. No, I'm not going to upload any of that data at this point. My
plan is to discuss it here and then if all goes well, split that large file
up using Qgis and then deal with one park at a time.

The data was obtained from the Denali National Park Resident GIS
specialist, who is also an OSM mapper, although he's very new to the OSM
world. He is user:NJSkunk

That's my initial question then. How to go about this in a responsible
manner?

Cheers,
Dave

-- 
Dave Swarthout
Homer, Alaska
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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