[Imports] GIS data for Laos donated as ODbl

[Ivan Garcia]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 2:41 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Ivan,
>
> On 12/29/2015 05:21 PM, Ivan Garcia wrote:
>> For the boundaries(level 6=districts) I have updated locally the data
>> to the last recent province and districts officially created since
>> 2014. If everything is alright only the districts will be upload soon.
>
> Please be advised that the import guidelines require discussion of your
> proposal, not just announcing it. Hence please be patient with uploading
> anything, to give people a chance to review the material.
>
> I have three questions:
>
> 1. Where is the boundary data thaty you plan to import? You have
> published a python script but, as far as I can see, neither input nor
> output files.
>
Sorry I forgot to include it.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1599184/others/osm/laos_boundaries.zip


> 2. Rivers, roads, villages - if past experience with imports is any
> guide, then some people *will* disregard your recommendation to only use
> these as a rough guide and rely on the imagery; some people will
> certainly want to go the quick and effortless route and operate by the
> "upload now, and someone else can fix it later" paradigm. Can we compare
> OSM data to the rivers/roads/villages file you have created and, if we
> encounter OSM data that is 100% identical, then delete that because it
> is obviously an import that ignores the plan?

You are right, maybe some people will just click on upload, right now
a OSM mapper is doing some QA comparing the villages places with other
datasets to see if it's valuable or not.
As for the roads and rivers, best would be to convert them into a WMS
layer or split the work into many HOT Task Manager pieces, what do you
think?

Also I have tagged each of them with the
import=yes
source:date=2010

to facilitate maintenance in case somebody does a bulk load.

>
> 3. The wiki page talks of forests but no forest dataset is ever
> mentioned anywhere - just boundaries, rivers, roads, and villages. What
> about forests?

There is no forest dataset afterall, after checking the data it was
quite irrelevant to OSM.


Thanks.
Ivan.