[Talk-il] Bulk upload of West Bank complete .. time to integrate!

[Baruch Even]

* Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com> [090705 02:22]:
> Hi
> 
> We've just completed %99.99 of the import of West Bank data collected by JumpStart International. Thanks to Josh Levinger for running the import script.
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/JumpStart%20International/edits
> 
> All that remains is the split of four very long ways, and import. The API has a limit of 2000 nodes per way. We'll make the ways consist of something like 100-500 nodes. Should be done soon.
> 
> 
> Now we need help to integrate and disambiguate the pre-existing data.
> There was some data already in the West Bank, but not so much. There
> are roads in and out of the West Bank. The duplicates objects need
> resolving, and the new data needs integration into the road network.
> 
> A great aid to this process will be by comparison in JOSM with an old
> version of the OSM file for the West Bank. User talkat has offered to
> produce this file using an old version of planet.osm and osmosis. He
> needs a poly for the boundary of the West Bank -- possibly a little
> larger. Can someone produce that for him? Actually, I think a simple
> bbox should do it .. what do you think talkat?

Cloudmade produce a weekly OSM output for Israel and also for Gaza. The
Israel extract includes the West Bank and Gaza so you could take that as
a basis and extract from that, it will be much faster this way.
Link: http://downloads.cloudmade.com/asia

You can load the whole of Israel into JOSM.

Please try to merge existing data as it includes possibly additional
information such as Hebrew names.

Cheers,
Baruch