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

[Mikel Maron]

> It would be neat to arrange some online mapping parties where people
> can help clean it up.

Awesome idea

Should definitely start to coordinate on the wiki. We should have a table in the wiki listing all the regions/cities. If you choose to work on a particular city or region, then make a note in that table. Can someone put that together?
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Palestine_WestBank

> When I looked at the JumpStart data for Gaza it had some things that
> the currently OSM doesn't, like street names. But the OSM data has
> other things the JumpStart data lacks. Such as building outlines when
> mappers have bothered to trace them.
> 
> So the JumpStart data isn't a superset of the OSM data.

Yes, good to know. I still think the easiest thing will be to delete what's currently there, import, and fix. We'll make sure to archive the current state of Gaza, for similar comparison later.


> I'm familiar with the difficulty of merging two OSM datasets
> automatically and I think we should go ahead as you suggest and delete
> the current Gaza data and upload the JumpStart data over it. But after
> that there needs to be a merging effort to add the things that
> shouldn't have been deleted.

Cool
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