[talk-ph] RFC: importing Palawan roads

[Ed Garcia]

Ako, I would go for uploading it as GPX.  this way mappers, local or
non-local can use it whether they are seriously mapping Palawan or just
practicing to map on OSM.


On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:55 AM, maning sambale
<emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Request for Comments (RFC) for importing Palawan Road Data.
>
> An engineering/surveying company gave me data for the roads of
> Palawan.  The company allowed us to add this data to Openstreetmap.
> I am fairly certain it didn't come from copyrighted sources, since
> they surveyed it themselves.
>
> See coverage here:
> whole Palawan
> http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3401/3597237046_913bd6f8cb_o.png
>
> subset for details (red is OSM road, blue is the data):
> http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2293/3597238322_c0b6e5c188_o.png
>
> The problem is:
> 1.  No attribute information (road name and type).  Just a lot
> topologically and positionally accurate lines.
> 2.  The data seems shifted westward by a few meters (probably a datum
> issue,
> should be easy to manually adjust before upload).
>
> We had imported this kind of data before (Laguna roads).  AFAIK,
> laguna editors like ianlopez had to manually edit a lot to make it
> what it is now.
>
> Any advice? Some options I can think of are:
>
> 1.  Don't add it, we might have a lot of data but not very useful (no
> road name, type).  Might be more difficult to maintain (something like
> Tiger data before).
> 2.  Convert it to GPX and allow Palawan editors (meron ba?) to use it
> as reference for tracing.
> 3.  Import with the following tags:
>
> highway=road
> source=name of company
> FIXME=fix for names and highway type.
>
>
> --
> cheers,
> maning
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