[talk-au] City Council mapping data import

[Ashley Kyd]

It might be worth looking at how the TIGER data was merged in the
'states... And not doing it that way.

I'd personally prefer if if this kind of data wasn't even to be merged
straight away. If it were made available in a format JOSM can overlay,
actual humans could then go over it in the same way we currently do with
Yahoo! imagery.

Benefits:

      * Crowdsource the import task.
      * Humans have a better idea as to how the data should be portrayed
        in OSM.
      * In already populated areas, humans are better at working out
        what should be merged.
      * It's better to build the map from the bottom up, rather than the
        top down. (By this I mean, it's better to import the data slowly
        and surely, rather than using import tools and having to go
        through and fix it all.)

Drawbacks:
      * Takes time, not that we don't have it.
      * Takes more effort, but with a greater result.

Just a thought. :)

Ash.

On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 11:09 +1000, John Smith wrote:
> 2009/9/4 Mike Smith <mikesmith at dominoconsultant.org>:
> > So the offer has been made by a couple of geographic specialists in a
> > couple of city councils for them to provide an initial data load from
> > their GIS for use by OSM.  The question is what do we want (in
> > general); what format should it be in; how is an import facilitated
> > (who can do it)?
> 
> What format, osm format would be great! :)
> 
> But seriously, shape files seem to be the next useful and can be
> converted to OSM, it really depends what format they can give the data
> to us is and if we can convert that to something more useful.
> 
> The next question is going to be a little more difficult if the areas
> you are importing already have data. People from other countries have
> and are dealing with this so we'd be able to get help.
> 
> The main thing to worry about is licensing, is the data being released
> under favourable terms, and also is the data allowed to be released
> under those terms. That is, was the data derived from another data set
> with more restrictions.
> 
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