[OSM-newbies] uploading prepared data

[Jason Reid]

Andrew Harris wrote:
> I am wondering how to upload substantial chunks of prepared data.
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> I work for a university and hope to get access to the building  
> outlines and data from our centrally managed buildings database. What  
> is my best way of loading this data into OSM? - Do I convert it to  
> gpx, open it in josm and upload? Is it that simple?
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> Andrew Harris
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Depending on the format, the best option would be to convert it to our 
XML schema (generally fairly easy if its shapefiles or gml as theres 
been tools written for other imports) then upload that.

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 Jason Reid

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 University of Calgary

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