[Talk-ca] Data Import in Austria

[Sam Vekemans]

Thanks :-)
and happy holidays.

Yes there is much to learn from other imports.
It also sparks more ideas which i havent yet shared on the list.

With 3.3 people per square km (plus water, as water navidads are
available-i thik there is more i havent contacted yet.
-1 person for 10 sq

On 12/21/08, Wolfgang W. Wasserburger <wolfgang at wasserburger.at> wrote:
> BTW: I'm reading the talk-ca list since a couple of weeks, so I'm a bit
> informed about your process, which really seams to be much huger.
> W.
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: Wolfgang W. Wasserburger [mailto:wolfgang at wasserburger.at]
>   Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 7:27 PM
>   To: acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com
>   Subject: Data Import in Austria
>
>
>   Hi,
>
>   I'm not sure, if there is too much common on the two imports.
>
>   First, Austria is a much smaller country with etimated 8 Mio inhabitants.
> In the moment we have about 1000 active mappers, so it is possible to do a
> lot of semi automatic tasks.
>
>   Second, our material is not a state one, but a donation from a privately
> owened company. As we see the material often has some shifts, so we are
> positoning every district from scratch.
>   Most of the ways only come with a namespace and our mappers are merging it
> with the original OSM material.
>
>   Third, I myself was employed at the donating company until 2003 and I know
> the data structure like my trousers pockets. It was easy to design a tagging
> scheme.
>
>   If you think you can learn of the process, feel free to send further
> questions, but excuse, that answaers will be delayed because of the
> holydays.
>
>   Please excuse my poor English.
>
>   Regards
>   Mit freundlichen Grüßen
>
>   Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang W. Wasserburger
>
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