[Imports] Importing Kerala, India road network from Facebook's ML generated data

[Blake Girardot]

Greetings,

An import specific wiki page has been created for this import:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Kerala_Road_Import

A link to all of the data to be imported is on the above wiki page.

And an entry has been made in the Import/Catalog listing here:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue#One-Time_Imports

Regards,
Blake

On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 4:44 PM, muzirian <muzirian at gmail.com> wrote:
> In late July 2018, severe flooding affected the Indian state of Kerala due
> to unusually high rainfall during the monsoon season.
> It was the worst flooding in Kerala in nearly a century.Over 373 people died
> within a fortnight, while at least 280,679 people were evacuated. It is
> estimated that 1,247,496 people have found shelter in various relief camps.
>
> Disaster response websites using OpenStreetMap are the following:
>     * Microid.in/keralaflood is used to identify flooded roads -
> https://www.microid.in/keralaflood/
>     * Keralarescue.in/map used to visualise rescue requests -
> https://keralarescue.in/map/ , https://process.keralarescue.in/rescue
>
> Facebook released road data generated with machine learning in Kerala  and
> they offered help to mobilize their team to the data in OSM.
> Please see the discussion here:  https://github.com/osm-in/mapping/issues/1
>
> Our proposed plan is to allow FB mapping team to do the initial import using
> their internal tools that takes care of conflation, connectivity fixes, etc.
> OSM-India community will then validate the imported data focusing on the
> highway tagging following the India road tagging scheme:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India:Tags/Highway
>
> Looking forward to your comments and suggestions.
>
> Kelvin
>
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