[Imports] Correcting Iran's Province boundaries and add County borders.

[Adib Yz]

Hello Tilman
Thank you for your quick response. I have got these file from the
department of geographical science of Arak University of Technology. I'm
going to get the permission from this department which says they own the
data. I don't think its gonna be a problem since almost every student has
access to these data and they use it on their projects.
I will follow the guideline and in case I didn't understand any part of it,
i'll ask in the import mailing list.

Best Regards,
Adib

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Tilman Brock-Hesse (tbhgeo) <
tilman.brock+tbhgeo at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hello Adib,
>
> what is the license of the data? Just because it is downloadable for free
> does not mean you can import the data to OSM.
>
> Please read the import guidelines at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/
> wiki/Import/Guidelines and follow those. You will need a documentation on
> the OSM wiki for the import, see for example
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mexico%27s_Administrative_Divisions_
> Import_Project .
>
> I hope the license issue works out, this is usually a large hurdle.
>
> Best regards,
> Tilman
>
>
> 2016-08-20 19:24 GMT+02:00 Adib Yz <adib.yz at gmail.com>:
>
>> Community
>>
>> My name is Adib Yaghoubzadeh and I'm a contributor to OSM from Iran. The
>> current Province boundaries of Iran are not correct and they aren't same as
>> the maps that Iranian organizations use. As you can see in Iran Project
>> wiki page these boundaries has been uploaded in 2009 by Claudius Henrichs
>> and even then he new the file that he used doesn't contain correct
>> boundaries. Also there isn't level 6 boundaries for almost all provinces in
>> Iran.
>>
>> I have discussed this issue with other Iranian OSM contributors and
>> everyone is agree to update the boundaries based on the current up to date
>> info that I have. have been able to access the maps that Iranian Ministry
>> of Interior develops and use. These maps are accessible to anyone who
>> access their website and are the most up to date and detailed maps
>> available for Iran's Divisions.
>>
>> I used these files and created a OSM file with all the required tags and
>> relations for provinces and counties in Iran. Since this activity hasn't
>> been done before by any Iranian, I would appreciate if you can guide me
>> through this process and help me prevent future errors and mistakes.
>>
>> Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.
>>
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