[Imports] Help request on Guatemala municipal boundaries

[Tommy Bruce]

Hello,  My name is Tommy I go by the username Sunfishtommy

It looks like you have done an excellent job so far at getting high quality
data and taking the time to compare that data and talk to the community.
Thank you for following the steps to do an import.

I have made many contributions in the northwestern part of Guatemala. In
this area (http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=11/16.0115/-90.6499).  Most of
the town boundaries I drew in that area were just marking where there were
houses and where there were not.  In this area at least I could see
replacing these boundaries with official ones to be beneficial.

Could you be more specific with what Municipal boundaries includes?  Are we
talking about just town and city borders? or state and national borders as
well?

How current is your data?  And do you have any plane for continuing imports
in the future as new versions of the data comes out?

You can find some helpful info here under the import guidelines page (
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines)

and it would be helpful if you could go ahead and and create a osm.wiki
page for your import and add it to the catalog here  (
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue)

Another way to find potentially active users in your area is to use this
website (http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/oooc)  you can sort in different
ways and message the users who you think might be active in Guatemala.

Also Carlos do you have your own OSM user account?


2017-06-19 16:00 GMT-07:00 CARLOS A. DUARTE <chduartegeo at gmail.com>:

> Dear imports list members:
>>
>> My name is Carlos Duarte, from Guatemala, Central America.
>>
>> UNICEF Guatemala has requested me to update Guatemala municipal boundary
>> info in Open Street Map. The scope of this task is beginning with checking
>> and correcting the currently available data in OSM, and then, completing
>> the missing boundary polygons.
>>
>> To do so, I downloaded from OSM the existing information on Guatemala
>> municipal boundaries, using Overpass Turbo.
>>
>> Then, I compared the existing information in OSM with the official
>> municipal boundaries shapefile from Guatemala (from National Geographic
>> Service) and I found that most of the existing polygons are different to
>> the official polygons, so I am exploring the idea of replacing all the
>> polygons with the official shapefile. A colleague suggested to contact the
>> OSM imports list, to request for guidance on the implications of completely
>> replacing this information in OSM.  I haven’t been able to identify a local
>> community of OSM contributors, so I am unsure if I’m allowed do a complete
>> substitution, and what is the best way to proceed.
>>
>> I will highly appreciate any orientation or guidance on this matter.
>> I'm an experienced GIS user, but quite new with contributing to OSM.
>>
>> Thanks and best regards from Guatemala
>>
>> Carlos Duarte
>> Guatemala
>>
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