[Talk-ca] Updating Street Centerlines in County of Grey, Ontario, Canada

[Daniel Begin]

Bonjour Soham, 

 

IMHO, importing a street network to improve the accuracy of an area that is
already covered is not a good idea and could be considered as vandalism -
mainly because it means deleting what have been done by previous
contributors.  However, if you have the time to compare both datasets,
aerial imagery, available GPS tracks, and adjust OSM data where it is way
out would be a better strategy . and I am assuming that the licence attached
to the data you propose is compatible with OSM licence, right?

 

Another strategy would be to make the data available under a public domain
licence and let the community do the job - if they are interested. By the
way, am I wrong if I say that the street network you are proposing to import
usually end up in the GeoBase product (through the provincial government)?

 

Best,

Daniel

 

From: Shah,Soham [mailto:Soham.Shah at grey.ca] 
Sent: July-03-14 11:28
To: talk-ca at openstreetmap.org; imports at openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-ca] Updating Street Centerlines in County of Grey, Ontario,
Canada

 

Hello,

 

The GIS department at the County of Grey, Ontario was interested in updating
the street centerline data with our Grey County Road Data, which we believe
is more precise, both in terms of centerline placement and road labelling.

 

I was thinking of using the JOSM Editor utility to bulk import the data. I
read on the 'Import process guidelines' wiki that street centerlines can be
very difficult to import. So, I am looking for some guidance and opinions of
the OSM community to know if this is a viable import project at the County
Scale.

 

Thanks.

 

Soham Shah
GIS Specialist
Grey County
595 9th Avenue East
Owen Sound, ON N4K 3E3
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Fax: +1 519-376-5640
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