[talk-au] Tram stops and routes for Melbourne

[Andy Botting]

Hi David,

> Im worried about a technique like that.  You plan to remove all existing
> stops (whether survey'd or nearmapped or whatever) to be replaced by a
> mass data set.  Just ask around how well that worked for the BP import
> and how many nodes ended up doubled up, or in the wrong location?

Before uploading them to OSM, I'd probably test them out on Google
Maps first as a sanity check.

If that seems ok, I'd probably start doing routes one by one, starting
with the ones with little or no stop nodes.

> If youve been on-the-ground and surveyed the data for the tram stops and
> simply wished to bulk upload verified data, that would be one thing, but
> if you plan on removing possibly surveyed data, just for the sake of
> importing a government supplied GIS list, I think the consequences
> should be understood that you could be removing accurate data to replace
> it with less-accurate data, unless you plan on reviewing/surveying every
> node yourself?

I would be reviewing all the myself. With these stops, it's not that
hard. They're generally at intersections of the road, so they're easy
to identify.

cheers,

Andy