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[Willy Froese]

Charlotte Wolter wrote:
>
>         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 be out of date.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
>>
>>  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 
>> <techlady at techlady.com <mailto: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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