[Talk-us] Importing campsite in Oregon

[Tom Brown]

Since the HooDoo Google My Map wouldn't work I emailed rcostello at fs.fed.us,
the contact listed at
http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/willamette/manage/gis/index.html, asking for
campsite locations. She replied with a shp file containing exactly that and
confirmed that the data is public domain (see below). I plan in importing
with source_ref=email:rcostello at fs.fed.us;wil_campsites.zip

Next question: What tools exist to help me merge/conflate the points I'm
importing with existing data (if any)? I could make an osm file that
contains all existing data that might be duplicated and use gpsbabel. I
don't see anything about duplicates at
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Import

Sorry for so many questions about a fairly small dataset. I'm getting my
feet wet and plan on working up to larger imports.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Rosana Costello <rcostello at fs.fed.us>
Date: Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: Campsite locations in Willamette
To: Tom Brown <tomgmail at thecap.org>


Yes it is, our public website is just woefully out of date and is being
updated.  So eventually, this and more will be available for our publics to
download.  I believe most if not all downloads will be in shapefile format.

Rosana A. Costello
GIS Analyst
CSA 2, Willamette National Forest
email: rcostello at fs.fed.us
Willamette phone: 541 225-6383



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            08/27/2008 08:49          Re: Campsite locations in
            PM                        Willamette

Awesome, data looks good thanks to ogr2ogr. Just to be sure, is this data
public domain, the same as data published on the web?
http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/data-library/gis/disclaimers.shtml

Thanks,
Tom
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