[OSM-newbies] Best process for data imports?

[Charlotte Wolter]

         This is data from the Navajo Division of Transportation. 
There is no mention of copyright in their published material, but I 
am checking with the head of the division. I will send him the 
license information and make sure it is OK before going any further.
         Also, I have been correcting some of the Tiger data manually 
in places on the reservation where I know the roads.  The Yahoo 
images are helpful, but, although they are better than Tiger, they, 
too, can be out of date.  It's tedious, so even if some of my work 
gets wiped out, I probably could live with it.
         What are common ways to break up data? Do you usually do it 
by latitude and longitude? (Which brings up another question: Why 
doesn't Potlatch show latitude and longitude, a la Google Earth? It 
would be helpful.)

--C

At 11:23 AM 12/19/2009, you wrote:
>Charlotte,
>
>I would suggest talking to people on the imports list (I am posting 
>this to there as well).  Shapefiles are a pretty common type of file 
>for geographic data.
>
>Also what is the license of the data?  Is the license for the data 
>compatible with OSM? Here are the import guidelines: 
><http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines
>
>  Since there is already road TIGER data and people have probably 
> made edits to it the process is going to take some manual work.  I 
> would recommend it being broken up into areas and having people 
> manually compare data.
>
>Kate Chapman
>user: wonderchook
>
>On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Charlotte Wolter 
><<mailto:techlady at techlady.com>techlady at techlady.com> wrote:
>Folks,
>         I have acess to some road data in the form of a "shape 
> file."  It is over a fairly large area in Arizona and New Mexico. 
> What is the best and safest way to go about bringing this data into OSM?
>         I do not have experience with this type of data (e.g., shape files).
>Charlotte
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Charlotte Wolter
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U.S. Census
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