[Imports] Proposal for importing governorates admin boundaries in Saudi Arabia

Mouath Ibrahim osmap at mouath.com
Sat Feb 27 13:25:08 UTC 2021


Greetings,

We are planning update the administrative boundaries for the 
governorates in Saudi Arabia.
We found official (Open Data) provided by The Saudi Ministry of Health 
that contains detailed and accurate coordinates of the boundaries.

The data also includes Regions (Provinces) borders.

This data can be obtained from these sources:
https://covid19-saudimoh.hub.arcgis.com/
Regions: 
https://covid19-saudimoh.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/8fec2f98d55e4e608d763a9f3062451c_0
Governorates: 
https://covid19-saudimoh.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/2d657302ce9342e39ba5d76cde644ee6_0

We have discussed this data and potential import within our official 
Saudi local community on Telegram Group:
https://t.me/OSMSaudi

And added these datasets as potential source in the wiki:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potential_Datasources#Saudi_Arabia

We outlined the steps to be taken if you give us the approval here:

     - Export the data from ArcGIS REST server(linked above) via QGIS.
     - Convert the file from GeoJson to OSM file type. (linked below)
     - Clean the data.
     - Split the ways of borders and get it ready to be on relation.
     - Get the old Regions boundary data via JOSM > overpass api.
     - Delete the old relations and get the now data. (or merge them)
     - Upload the new data
     - We will create wiki page that explain all these steps in detail.
     - The users who will work on this import are (dedicated account 
will be used in the actual final import):
         https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Abdullah%20Abdulrhman
         https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mouath%20Ibrahim


I have linked raw data (not final) to be considered for review:
Governorates: 
https://git.mouath.com/osm/regions-and-governorates/-/blob/c06da84270adc19aab62441282b68b1ba8468b4e/Gov.osm
Regions: 
https://git.mouath.com/osm/regions-and-governorates/-/blob/c06da84270adc19aab62441282b68b1ba8468b4e/Reg.osm

Regards,
Mouath Ibrahim




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